This discussion paper presents the main technical approaches and business models for sharing infrastructure, focusing on the telecommunications sector. Additionally, through literature review and analysis of news from specialized media, the main benefits, problems and challenges associated with...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a vision to revive the ancient 'Silk Road' by means of massive infrastructure investments throughout Eurasia and Africa, was first presented by China's President Xi Jinping in 2013. China has identified the region of Central East and Southeast Europe (CESEE)...

This report discusses key issues around the mobilization of private capital for development. Investment requirements are huge, especially for infrastructure, climate and other SDG-related investments. External finance for developing countries stagnated in the years before the pandemic, followed...

Due to a fast growing labor force and large economic base, more and more areas are getting industrialized in South Asia. Many new and bigger cities are coming up. For anything to grow, energy is needed. More so, if the growth is rapid. All of these factors raise the South Asian region's hunger...

This report discusses key issues around the mobilization of private capital for development. Investment requirements are huge, especially for infrastructure, climate and other SDG-related investments. External finance for developing countries stagnated in the years before the pandemic, followed...

This article gives a brief overview of private-public partnerships (P3) in the United Kingdom and Europe. It covers the development of the P3 markets, their size and relevance. This leads to important insights and lessons for investors and policy makers

The development and operation of major infrastructure projects have seen some extremely successful outcomes, and less-than-optimal results. Some projects have experienced significant construction delays, cost blow outs and performance failure during the operational phase. This Paper examines...

In this paper, we empirically assess the effects of the winner’s curse in auctions for road concession contracts. Such auctions are private- and common-value auctions, and they are on concession contracts which are incomplete contracts prone to pervasive renegotiations (Guasch 2004, Engel...

In this paper, we empirically assess the effects of the winner's curse in auctions for toll road concession contracts. Such auctions are common-value auctions for incomplete contracts prone to pervasive renegotiations. We address three questions in turn. First, we investigate the overall effects...