Banking on the Environment? Financial Frictions, Firm Management, and Green Investments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph De Haas ◽  
Ralf Martin ◽  
Mirabelle Muûls ◽  
Helena Schweiger
Author(s):  
L.S. Kabir

The present study reveals the trends and features of the current state of financing the foreign countries’ transition to a new «green» economic growth model. To summarize the contemporary experience of countries’ integration into public administration practice the approaches and standards in the field of «green» investments financing.The subject of the study is the set of measures implemented by countries to develop sources of finance for «green» economy projects.Tasks: 1) to consider the principal directions of the «green» investments state policy support, its purpose, and the tools used; 2) to identify the market’s role in the «green» economy financing; 3) to clarify the main issues constraining private investments in «green» projects. The countries’ approach to «green» economic growth financing is examined in the present paper by means of common methods of scientific knowledge.There reviewed the arguments justifying the government support for «green» investments. There revealed the problems constraining the market «green» financing development and speculations about their origins. The study concludes that the countries’ economic policies are aimed at improving the existing model’s efficiency, not at the transition to the new «green» economy model. Thus, through the state support tools, there being generated strong signals signifying the creation of favorable market conditions for the functioning of a new economy sector – the sector of «green» technologies.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Bubna ◽  
Radhakrishnan Gopalan
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2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 1451-1476 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAŁ BRZOZA-BRZEZINA ◽  
MARCIN KOLASA

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