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From global savings glut to financing infrastructure

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  • Rabah Arezki
  • Patrick Bolton
  • Sanjay Peters
  • Frédéric Samama
  • Joseph Stiglitz

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Summary Samama and Joseph Stiglitz?>This paper proposes an institutional solution that can help unlock the flow of low yielding long-term savings towards high-return infrastructure investments. The solution is to transform public–private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure as well as the classic model of multilateral development banks. Instead of thinking of PPPs as bilateral contracts between a private concession operator and a government agency, we argue that they should be conceived as partnerships that also involve a development bank and long-term institutional investors as partners. We propose a new model for development banks, which is to transform them into originate-and-distribute banks for PPP infrastructure projects. The new model allows them to conserve their valuable capital and leverage their expertise and capabilities by making them available to long-term institutional investors.

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  • Rabah Arezki & Patrick Bolton & Sanjay Peters & Frédéric Samama & Joseph Stiglitz, 2017. "From global savings glut to financing infrastructure," Economic Policy, CEPR, CESifo, Sciences Po;CES;MSH, vol. 32(90), pages 221-261.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ecpoli:v:32:y:2017:i:90:p:221-261.
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    1. Emma Hooper & Sanjay Peters & Patrick A. Pintus, 2018. "The Causal Effect of Infrastructure Investments on Income Inequality: Evidence from US States," Working Papers halshs-01684565, HAL.
    2. Jean-Charles Hourcade & Dipak Dasgupta & Frédéric Ghersi, 2021. "Accelerating the speed and scale of climate finance in the post-pandemic context," Climate Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(10), pages 1383-1397, November.
    3. Surbhi Gupta & Anil Kumar Sharma, 2022. "Evolution of infrastructure as an asset class: a systematic literature review and thematic analysis," Journal of Asset Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 23(3), pages 173-200, May.
    4. Gurara, Daniel & Presbitero, Andrea & Sarmiento, Miguel, 2020. "Borrowing costs and the role of multilateral development banks: Evidence from cross-border syndicated bank lending," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).
    5. Emma Hooper & Sanjay Peters & Patrick A. Pintus, 2021. "The impact of infrastructure investments on income inequality: Evidence from US states," Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 29(2), pages 227-256, April.
    6. Fay, Marianne & Martimort, David & Straub, Stéphane, 2021. "Funding and financing infrastructure: The joint-use of public and private finance," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 150(C).
    7. Chiara Broccolini & Giulia Lotti & Alessandro Maffioli & Andrea F Presbitero & Rodolfo Stucchi, 2021. "Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 35(2), pages 521-543.
    8. Saori Katada, 2023. "Political Economy shaped by Financialization," Working Papers hal-04136349, HAL.
    9. Inderst, Georg, 2021. "Financing Development: Private Capital Mobilization and Institutional Investors," EconStor Preprints 232266, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    10. Degl’Innocenti, Marta & Frigerio, Marco & Zhou, Si, 2022. "Development banks and the syndicate structure: Evidence from a world sample," Journal of Empirical Finance, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 99-120.
    11. Xu, Ruihui & Zhang, Xuliang & Gozgor, Giray & Lau, Chi Keung Marco & Yan, Cheng, 2023. "Investor flow-chasing and price–performance puzzle: Evidence from global infrastructure funds," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).
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    Keywords

    infrastructure; public–private partnership; long-term investors; savings; and investment policy;
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    JEL classification:

    • H49 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Other
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
    • G38 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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