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Designing an Israeli Development Financing Platform
On January 8, 2019, in a joint venture with the Prime Minister’s Office, the Milken Innovation Center/Blum Lab ...
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Models for Biomedical Innovation and Commercialization
This report relates to a Financial Innovations Lab held in Jerusalem in 2015 that led to new work and major col...
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Principles for Shared Use of Mining Infrastructure: Tapping into Win-Win Solutions for Mining Companies, Governments, and Communities
On February 10, 2016, at the Investing in African Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town, South Africa, the Milk...
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Shared-Use Mining Infrastructure: Why It Matters and How to Achieve It
For many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the effective exploitation of natural resource wealth is vital to the...
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Global Opportunity Index: Attracting Foreign Investment
Foreign direct investment has never been more important in catalyzing growth, whether in the developed or devel...
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Financing the Control of Tuberculosis
As of 2015, roughly one third of the world’s population, mostly in poorer countries, carried tuberculosis bacte...
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Innovative Financing Models for Energy Infrastructure in Africa
As of 2014, the infrastructure needs of Sub-Saharan Africa were expected to exceed US$93B annually over 10 year...
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Survey Brief: Rwandan Businesses Share Their Priorities for Capital-Market Development
With approximately 12 million citizens and a nominal GDP of just under $9 billion, the Rwandan economy is small...
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Bank Competition and Opacity
When banks manipulate financial statements to smooth earnings, circumvent capital requirements, and reduce taxe...
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Designating Bank SIFIs: An Arbitrary Threshold for Risk
In response to the recent severe financial crisis and the worst recession since the Great Depression, the U.S. ...
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Bitcoin: Crypto-currency – and game changer
Bitcoin’s emergence in the zeitgeist began in a quiet corner of Europe in March 2013. Reeling from a banking cr...
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Comments on the Department of the Treasury (TREAS) Notice: Public Input on Expanding Access to Credit Through Online Marketplace Lending
The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) provided written comments to the Department of the Trea...
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Currency Manipulation Provisions Do Not Belong in Trade Agreements
Demands for provisions to stop currency manipulation by foreign governments have become central to the congress...
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Casualties of War: Milken Institute Review Second Quarter 2015
The dominance of the U.S. financial system in global economic activity generates huge benefits for the United S...
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Financing Urban Resiliency: Innovative Approaches to Deliver Affordable Housing in Chicago
In many US cities, concentrated poverty and chronic disinvestment have resulted in wide social, economic, and g...
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Virtuous circle for east Africa: Regional capital market integration is the only option
Over the past decade, the major economies of east Africa – Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda – have enjoyed a...
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Financing Urban Resiliency Investing in Complete Communities in the London City Region
By 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population will be living in cities, more than double the percentage reporte...
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Clearing a Path for Global Development Finance: Enabling Basel and Development Guarantees to Deliver on Sustainable Development Goals
On August 2, 2017, the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) convened a roundtable to discuss how...
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The Economic Impact of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy versus Out-of-Court Restructuring
Companies in financial distress and unable to make payments due to creditors often face an important choice: wh...
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Financing Urban Resiliency: Coastal Resiliency in Lower Manhattan
Cities across the US, particularly those along the coasts, are facing mounting threats from climate change and ...