Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Finance (eBook, PDF)

Creating an Efficient Market through Innovative Policies and Instruments
Redaktion: La Torre, Mario; Chiappini, Helen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Critically discusses prominent issues in the sustainable finance sector, covering a range of topics including the SDGs, impact investing and taxation

Proposes novel models and solutions to challenges facing sustainable finance, such as climate-smart agriculture and microfinance

Presents empirical case studies from across the globe, with a particular focus on Europe, Latin America and Africa

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030402488
• Artikelnr.: 59783458

Autorenporträt

Mario La Torre is Professor of Banking and Finance at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and author of the blog Good in Finance. His research revolves around banking, financial intermediaries and financial innovation. Also an expert in ethical finance, microfinance and finance for the audiovisual industry, Mario is series editor of Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance. He is a member of the Board of the Italian National Body for Microcredit and was previously a member of the G8 Taskforce on Social Impact Investments. As well as publishing in academic journals, Mario is the co-editor of the book, Socially Responsible Investments (Palgrave, 2019). Helen Chiappini is Assistant Professor at G. D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, where she teaches Sustainable Finance and Corporate Finance. Additionally, she teaches Impact Investing at the Pontifical Lateran University of the Vatican City. Helenis the sub-series editor of Palgrave Studies in Green Finance and Guest Editor of Sustainability. Her areas of research include green finance, impact investments, socially responsible investments and microfinance. She has written and co-edited two books: Social Impact Funds (Palgrave, 2017) and Socially Responsible Investments (Palgrave, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Enhancing Efficiency in Sustainable Markets; Mario La Torre and Helen Chiappini.- 2. Financing Sustainable Goals: Economic and Legal Implications; Raffaele Felicetti and Alessandro Rizzello.- 3. Rethinking Taxation and Impact Investments; Alessandro Mazzullo.- 4. Profitable Impact Bonds: Introducing Risk-sharing Mechanisms for a More Balanced Version of Social Impact Bonds; Giulia Proietti.- 5. Social Stock Exchanges: Defining the Research Agenda; Karen Wendt.- 6. A Macro-level Analysis of the Economic and Social Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa; Roberto Pasca di Magliano and Andrea Vaccaro.- 7. Environmental Impact Investments in Europe; Giuliana Birindelli, Annarita Trotta, Helen Chiappini, Alessandro Rizzello.- 8. The Increasing Importance of Green Bonds as Instruments of Impact Investing: Towards a New European Standardisation; Maria Cristina Quirici.- 9. Green Banking in Italy: Current and Future Challenges; Giuseppina Procopio, Annarita Trotta, Eugenia Strano and Antonia Patrizia Iannuzzi.- 10. Opportunities and Challenges of Impact Investing in Climate-smart Agriculture in Latin America; Angélica Rotondaro, Andrea Minardi and Leonie Dissemond.- 11. Sustainable Finance: Trends, Opportunities and Risks; Mario La Torre and Helen Chiappini.