This article analyses the basic financial market conditions in the European Union (EU) which enable the emergence of debt funds. Using this foundation, the article explains how and why infrastructure debt funds, specifically, are evolving in the EU. To this end, infrastructure is introduced as...

Between 2000 and 2004, EIB support for the urban transport sector amounted to EUR 10.7 billion of direct financing, with an overwhelming 92% for public transport projects and 8% for various other urban transport infrastructures.

This article is the first attempt to compile comprehensive data on infrastructure finance in Europe. We decompose infrastructure finance by institutional sector (i.e. public versus private) into its main components, which consist of traditional public procurement, project finance and finance by...

This overview discusses some key findings of the papers presented at the conference and draws some policy conclusions from them in the context of the broader literature. The papers and the wider academic discussion are sorted into three areas. First, how do the economics of infrastructure...