Sovereign investors are often referred to as long-term investors. But it is still unclear that these investors pertain to the same category, as they vary on many dimensions. Previous research proposed typologies of sovereign investors based on external criteria such as region or size of assets...

This paper aims at showing that contemporary city planners should look into Mediterranean cities. The authors go through different cities such as Toledo, Torino, Firenze, and Santorini, and demonstrate that these cites were conceived in symbiosis with their environment, long before the...

Sovereign investors are an emerging community of investment organizations, subject to the conflicting demands of international and domestic institutions. Existing research interprets them either as mirroring global financialization or preserving national interests. Both top-down global...

As public debt rises, governments struggle to fund and finance new infrastructure. The past two decades have seen an increase in privatization of infrastructure assets and public private partnerships. However, alignment of interests between governments and private owners can be challenging. In...