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Financial Innovations

Center for Financial Innovations

Innovative financial technologies that leverage the full spectrum of capital - social, human, environmental and financial - can unlock hidden value and finance the future.

At the Milken Institute, we combine our knowledge of financial instruments with an understanding of risk to devise financial innovations that strengthen the ability of an organization, an industry or even a country to develop ideas and promote growth. We aim to align interests and catalyze concrete solutions that effectively leverage public, private and philanthropic capital.

The Center for Financial Innovations specializes in:

applying financial innovations to social, economic and environmental policy challenges.
convening Financial Innovations Labs, where leaders in public policy, the business and investment communities, and academic and private-sector researchers target specific challenges. Lab members use case studies to develop financial solutions and provide next steps for their implementation.
documenting best practices in innovation across all sectors in research papers, Financial Innovations Lab reports and our Wharton-Milken Institute book series.

The Center has addressed breakthrough strategies in financing efficient food aid delivery, small business development in emerging domestic markets, urban infrastructure, biomedical R&D, alternative energy, post-conflict economic recovery and development in Israel, and insurance risk in catastrophe-prone areas. This work has generated tangible results: a $400 million fund to promote biomedical innovation in Israel, a plan for a data consortium monitoring investment in emerging domestic markets, and an increase in the number and variety of catastrophic risk-management products and investors.

For more information, view a summary of the Center for Financial Innovations.

Contacts:
Glenn Yago
Executive Director, Financial Research
gyago@milkeninstitute.org


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Recent Publications

2010

Scaling Enterprise Finance:
The Future of Biofuels
Date: June 2010

Financing the Future:
Market-Based Innovations for Growth
Date: April 2010
Franklin Allen and Glenn Yago
Wharton School Publishing

Financing the Residential Retrofit Revolution
Date: April 2010

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Financial Innovations for Infrastructure Finance: The Grid, Renewables and Beyond
Date: March 29, 2010

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2009

Financial Innovations for Housing:
After the Meltdown
Date: November 30, 2009
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Innovative Financing Strategies for
Early Childhood Care
Date: November 2009
Betsy Zeidman and Jill Scherer
The PEW Center on the States

Stimulating Investment
in Emerging-Market SMEs
Date: October 2009
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2008

Financial Innovations
for Developing Archaeological Discovery and Conservation
Date: December 2008
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Increasing Capital for Small Businesses:
The Promise of Securitization
Date: August 2008
Glenn Yago, Betsy Zeidman and Jill Manning
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Accelerating Medical Solutions in Israel: Building a Global Life Science Industry
Date: May 15, 2008
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Accelerating Medical Solutions in Israel: Building a Global Life Science Industry (Hebrew)
Date: May 15, 2008
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Financial Innovations for Catastrophe Risk: Cat Bonds and Beyond
Date: April 30, 2008
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2007

Entrepreneurship in Emerging Domestic Markets: Barriers and Innovation
Date: November 2007
Glenn Yago, James R. Barth, and Betsy Zeidman, eds.
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Financial Innovations for Economic Recovery and Development in Northern Israel
Date: July 4, 2007
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Financial Innovations for Accelerating Medical Solutions
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Changing the Contours of Capital
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The Isabela Project: Closing the Latino Capital Parity and Procurement Gap
Date: June 2004
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2003

Creating Capital, Jobs and Wealth in Emerging Domestic Markets: Financial Technology Transfer to Low-Income Communities
Date: January 2003
Glenn Yago, Betsy Zeidman, Bill Schmidt

2001

Investment in Minority Businesses: A Discussion of Financial Innovation
Date: August 23, 2001
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A Flourishing Business Base Needs Minority Entrepreneurs
Date: April 24, 2001
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