The Private Provision of Urban Infrastructure: Financial Intermediation through Long-term Contracts.
This paper deals with pension fund investment in urban infrastructure projects . It is suggested that the potential returns (and risks) with such projects are significantly greater than comparable fixed-income products though they have long gestation periods like gilt-edged securities. Our argument...
| Publicado en: | Urban Studies (Routledge) Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 301 - 320 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb98
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