INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL CAPITAL MOBILITY IN LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES

This study examines the role of global, regional and domestic saving for domestic investment financing in the panel of Latin American and Caribbean countries along with its three regional integration blocks, namely SICA, Andean Community and MERCOSUR. Panel regression and rolling-window estimation results reveal that global saving is the main source of domestic investment financing in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean, SICA, Andean Community and MERCOSUR. The role of domestic and regional savings is rather limited, implying that there are weak regional and domestic channels that can funnel domestic and regional savings into investment in the analysed samples. The importance of regional agreement saving is insignificant and decreases over the analysed period except for the Andean Community. The results indicate low financial integration of the member-countries within the three regional trade agreements.

Financial regulation as a way to ensure the volume and optimization of the composition of investment financing sources in imperfect markets

Subject. This article considers financial regulation as a way to ensure the volume and optimization of the composition of sources of financing investment in imperfect markets. Objectives. The article aims to find out how financial regulation contributes to ensuring the volume of investment financing in imperfect markets and how to optimize investment financing sources, and identify other aspects of ensuring the sustainability of financing investment projects in oil production in the face of short-term constraints in financial markets. Methods. For the study, I used content, statistical, and economic analyses. Results. The article shows that the choice of sources of financing investments in oil production is actualized primarily by the fact that in each specific period of time (for example, a fiscal year), an investment entity needs to finance the relevant investments, taking into account the "matrix" and continuing nature of investments in oil production, and regularly invest a certain amount of money. Conclusions. If the investment market situation is unfavorable, asymmetry gets manifested in some cases. The mechanisms of perfect financial markets, which generally contribute to a certain balancing of investment financing sources, at the same time do not guarantee a deterrent to the cost of financing. And, on the contrary, these mechanisms can affect significant fluctuations, if the main attribute of the instability of the investment market is the lack of liquidity.

Economic Indicators in Water and Wastewater Sector Contributing to a Circular Economy (CE)

Protection and sustainable management of water was indicated as one of the strategic tasks in the process of transformation towards a circular economy (CE) in the European Union (EU), therefore, the water and wastewater sector plays an important role in this process. At the same time, the European Commission (EC) strongly underlined the importance of the possibility to assess the transformation process toward the CE, and developed a set of CE indicators that are available on the Eurostat website. However, these indicators have limited ability to assess the transformation progress in the water and wastewater sector. This paper presents a set of indicators for assessing the economic progress of transformation towards the CE in this sector. The proposed economic CE indicators were grouped into the following actions of the CE model in the water and wastewater sector: reduction, reclamation (removal), reuse, recycling, recovery and landfilling. The selection of specific indicators was based on a systematic review of the literature presenting economic indicators developed by international organisations and researchers (covering different thematic areas, scopes and potential applications). The selected economic CE indicators were assigned to three groups of the cash flow: income (revenues, expenses), costs, and investment financing. The proposed CE indicators can be used by water supply and sewage companies (i.e., supplying water to the public and wastewater treatment plants, and companies that use water in their production processes) to assess the level of the transformation toward the CE at a microeconomic level. An important aspect of future application and usage of the proposed set of CE economic indicators is the collection and processing of data needed for their reporting. The proposed set of CE economic indicators refers to information that are reported by the companies to prove its revenues, costs and investment outlays, and are collected by companies anyway. The proposed set of economic CE indicators is flexible, allowing the adaptation of indicators and areas of interest to maintain effectiveness throughout the transition period from linear to the CE model.

Financing the Transition Toward Carbon Neutrality—an Agent-Based Approach to Modeling Investment Decisions in the Electricity System

Transitioning to a low-carbon electricity system requires investments on a very large scale. These investments require access to capital, but that access can be challenging to obtain. Most energy system models do not (explicitly) model investment financing and thereby fail to take this challenge into account. In this study, we develop an agent-based model, where we explicitly include power sector investment financing. We find that different levels of financing constraints and capital availabilities noticeably impact companies' investment choices and economic performances and that this, in turn, impacts the development of the electricity capacity mix and the pace at which CO2 emissions are reduced. Limited access to capital can delay investments in low-carbon technologies. However, if the financing constraint is too relaxed, the risk of going bankrupt can increase. In general, companies that anticipate carbon prices too high above or too far below the actual development, along with those that use a low hurdle rate, are the ones that are more likely to go bankrupt. Emissions are cut more rapidly when the carbon tax grows faster, but there is overall a greater tendency for agents to go bankrupt when the tax grows faster. Our energy transition model may be particularly useful in the context of the least financially developed markets.

Regional Government Revenue Forecasting: Risk Factors of Investment Financing

Accurate revenue prediction is a key factor for the reliable determination of the investment part of entire regional and local budgets, particularly during economic downturns and fiscal uncertainty. An unexpected decline in revenue requires the reduction in capital expenditures and forces the regional government to find additional sources to close the budget gaps. Current studies indicate that budget forecasts often underpredict revenue and use the available information inefficiently. In this article, the authors examine chosen methods of forecasting regional government revenue. In addition to classical forecasting models based on time series and causal models, an original structural forecasting procedure was proposed, which is effective especially in case of data delay. The reliability of applied methods was assessed using data from the Polish area of Zachodniopomorskie over the period 2000–2018. The found evidence supported results that were obtained by many other researchers, which indicated that less comprehensive methods of forecasting can provide reasonably accurate estimates.

Praktik Leasing di Indonesia dalam Tinjauan Hukum Islam

The development of leasing in Indonesia was in line with the development of banking, both bank and non-bank institutions. This development was certainly inseparable from the demands and needs of the community that they cannot fulfil on their own. The emerging financing institutions carry out activities in the form of providing funds or capital goods by not withdrawing funds directly from the public. The existence of leasing as a means for developing investment financing and empowering the community's economy was still considered to have several problems. Although the practice of leasing in Islamic law was equated with the contract of ijarah vomitiyah bi at-tamlik, in practice in Indonesia the process of leasing agreement was considered fasid, because there was an element of ambiguity in the contract agreement as regulated in the provisions of multi-aqad agreements, both conventional and sharia. This research will discuss the practice of financing in the community categorized as leasing under the provisions of applicable law and a review of Islamic law on the implementation of such leasing.

PHYSICAL INVESTMENT FINANCING IN THE CZECH CORPORATE SECTOR

The aim of this article is to identify the structure of physical investment financing in the Czech corporate sector. The data used in the conducted analyzes are derived from national accounts and more specifically the two accounts included in the accumulation accounts, ie.: the capital account and financial account. The article uses the methodology of net sources of finance initially developed by C. Mayer. It uses the flow of funds rather than stock data.

Investment, Financing, Dividend, and Production Policies: Review and Integration

The main purposes of this paper are (i) to review investment, financing, dividend, and production policies in some detail; (ii) to discuss how these four policies are interrelated and integrate these four policies into a composite policy; (iii) to discuss the impacts of financing, dividend, and production policies on the beta coefficient; and (iv) to develop hypotheses to be used for empirical studies on the interaction among financing, dividend, and production policies. A theoretical relationship between beta coefficient and financing, dividend, and production policies is developed. This paper gives an overall view of the four policies used in finance education and research for the last five decades.

Legal nature of the leasing agreement and its peculiarities

The article examines the legal nature of leasing in Ukraine. The issues of scientific analysis of the essence and mechanism of civil renewal of legal transformed regulation of the economics of leasing research legal relations in traditional Ukraine are considered. In the capital of modern economic instability in the means of Ukraine’s economy, the urgency of regulation acquires the issue of developed effective responsibilities and rational legal use of existing resources, investment, procurement, enterprise, search for effective funds, methods of accelerated legal development destroyed equipment is the case of the development of a developed lease relationship, the state in particular the financial entrepreneur. Investment leases help countries entrepreneurs who cope with the most economically important task due in the financial business - leasing constant financial renewal risks means synonymous with production and production maintaining them develops at a developed proper due level dynamically mastering develops.It is the loan due to the investment leased post-war mastery of Germany and equipment developed by Japan turned accelerated from the need for economically sound destroyed Germany states into a legal country with a mechanism of strong which and funds developed loan economy leasing. In the financing of countries with major developed economies to prove the task of one of the main lending types of investment investment regulation is used leasing.For Ukraine, this type of activity is relatively new, but is actively developing. Therefore, there is a need to bring Ukrainian legislation governing leasing relations in line with international standards and to define their clear legal criteria.It is also worth noting that the increase in investment activity in Ukraine will be largely determined by the presence of conditions attractive for the development of new forms of investment financing, including leasing. Therefore, providing the legal framework for the regulation of leasing relations is an extremely important task of the legislator.