Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Finance : Creating an Efficient Market through Innovative Policies and Instruments

1. Enhancing Efficiency in Sustainable Markets; Mario La Torre and Helen Chiappini -- 2. Financing Sustainable Goals: Economic and Legal Implications; Raffaele Felicetti and Alessandro Rizzello -- 3. Rethinking Taxation and Impact Investments; Alessandro Mazzullo -- 4. Profitable Impact Bonds: Introducing Risk-sharing Mechanisms for a More Balanced Version of Social Impact Bonds; Giulia Proietti -- 5. Social Stock Exchanges: Defining the Research Agenda; Karen Wendt -- 6. A Macro-level Analysis of the Economic and Social Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa; Roberto Pasca di Magliano and Andrea Vaccaro -- 7. Environmental Impact Investments in Europe; Giuliana Birindelli, Annarita Trotta, Helen Chiappini, Alessandro Rizzello -- 8. The Increasing Importance of Green Bonds as Instruments of Impact Investing: Towards a New European Standardisation; Maria Cristina Quirici -- 9. Green Banking in Italy: Current and Future Challenges; Giuseppina Procopio, Annarita Trotta, Eugenia Strano and Antonia Patrizia Iannuzzi -- 10. Opportunities and Challenges of Impact Investing in Climate-smart Agriculture in Latin America; Angélica Rotondaro, Andrea Minardi and Leonie Dissemond -- 11. Sustainable Finance: Trends, Opportunities and Risks; Mario La Torre and Helen Chiappini.