Переход национальной экономики России на инновационно-инвестиционную модель является единственной возможной траекторией развития в условиях постиндустриальной эпохи. Именно инновационные технологии приносят наибольший экономический эффект, по сравнению с инвестированными средствами. Существует острая проблема критического старения основных фондов структурообразующих предприятий. До 95% ВВП сейч...

This paper provides a summary of financial instruments to address two biggest risks renewable projects in India. These include the following: first, off-taker (or counterparty) risk, which relates payment delays by public-sector distribution companies independent power producers, then impact project level cash flows domestic currency; second, currency foreign exchange) risk related fluctuations...

at the causes of the financial crisis and subsequent recession. He argues that much of what went wrong can be analysed using standard economic tools. The Great Moderation was a period of unusually stable macroeconomic activity in advanced economies. This was partly thanks to good luck, including the integration of emerging market countries into the global economy, and partly a dividend from str...

This paper examines the viability of security transaction excise taxes (STETs) as one policy tool for promoting a more stable financial environment, specifically with respect to the U.S. economy. Contrary to a large recent critical literature, we show that a STET can be designed without creating large distortions between segments of the financial market. We also show that a modest STET for the ...

The goal of this paper is to measure the financial performance of 21 primary Clean Techs (CT) equity indexes, covering the primary energy markets worldwide. We use a modified state-space market model to recursively estimate the risk/return performance of each index, and two market benchmarks are considered, thus providing a more accurate picture of the financial outcomes of investing in these r...

T his study is the second in a two-part analysis of the mutual fund industry. The first part (Fortune 1997, referred to here as " Part I ") examined the basic structure of the industry and discussed the historical relationship between mutual fund flows and returns on both short-term and long-term financial instruments. That study ended with a discussion of the role that momentum investing by mu...

Housing finance is a nontraditional field where actuarial expertise could be applied fruitfully. The development of mortgage instruments requires the application of financial mathematics, while the evaluation and management of the financial risks to which borrowers and lenders are exposed require a knowledge of insurance principles. This paper splits the financial costs of home ownership into s...

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of software packages in financial time series modeling. The most common among economists packages R, Eviews and Gretl are considered. Volatility is often used as a rough approximation to measuring of overall risk financial instruments. Polish stock index WIG for the modeling of financial time series volatility was chosen. Econometric model of f...

We support the Board’s efforts to enhance the disclosures about financial instruments and to converge the disclosure requirements with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, Fair Value Measurements (Statement 157), issued by the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). We believe the proposal to converge with the fair value hierarchy disclosures in Statement 157 is approp...