The financing of public infrastructure investment through public-private partnerships faces daunting challenges related to the success of implementation of public infrastructure investment. There are multi-dimensional competing factors which inhibit the short and long-term implementation of...

Loan loss reserves make up an essential part of a bank's soundness and more generally its viability. An under-provisioned reserve account implies that capital ratios may overstate a bank's ability to absorb future losses. For this reason, both supervisory authorities and investors regularly...

In Deutschland ist das Interesse an (neuen) Risikomanagementinstrumenten für die Landwirtschaft in letzter Zeit stark gestiegen. Vor diesem Hintergrund erfolgt in diesem Working Paper eine systematische Zusammenstellung und Bewertung ausgewählter Instrumente zum Risikomanagement in der...