Issuance of green bonds (GBs) is valuable for developing countries because it provides a market deepening mechanism, which enables greater liquidity investments in renewable energy (RE) sector. This article premised on the outlook first GB Ghana. The study investigates features GBs, investors prioritize as preferential RE financing (REF). Employing literature, twelve beneficial GBs were identif...

One of the major challenges regarding energy transition is to create active support towards renewable installations on a local level. The CROWDTHERMAL project presents practical approaches for involving stakeholders in different measures order develop acceptable solutions. Based technical evidence and data from concrete case studies, shows ways how community funding can increase social acceptan...

A fairly extensive literature from the field of empirical psychology has provided evidence that personality factors and attitudes toward credit may influence individuals' debt financing decisions. This paper investigates the importance of these factors by analysing the results of an original survey about the recourse to consumer credit, conducted on a wide sample of Italian households. Three ma...

This study empirically evaluates the certification and value-added roles of reputable venture capitalists (VCs). Using a novel sample of entrepreneurial start-ups with multiple financing offers, I analyze financing offers made by competing VCs at the first professional round of start-up funding, holding characteristics of the start-up fixed. Offers made by VCs with a high reputation are three t...

background: households’ financial protection against health payments and expenditures and equity in utilization of health care services are of the most important tasks of governments. this study aims to measuring equity in household’s health care payments according to fairness in financial contribution (ffc) and kakwani indices in tehran-iran, 2013. methods: this cross-sectional study was condu...