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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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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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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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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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A Primer and Perspective on Ginnie Mae
Several housing finance reform models, including the Treasury and HUD plans recently issued at the direction of...
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Growing the US Green Bond Market: Lab 2
As climate-related events, including wildfires, become more prevalent throughout California, investors and issu...
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Market Scan: Future of Long-Term Care amid Current Landscape of Barriers and Opportunities
The Milken Institute’s Center for the Future of Aging and Innovative Finance teams are collaborating on a resea...
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COVID-19 Forbearance Relief and PLS: A Call for Self-Governance
As private-label residential mortgage-backed security (PLS) transactions implement loan payment forbearance opt...
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Accelerating Agritech Solutions in Israel, California, and Developing Economies
The global agricultural industry totals $8 trillion annually. Food and food services account for 10 percent of ...
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New Models for Funding Post-Secondary Education in Illinois
In June 2020, the Milken Institute, in collaboration with the State of Illinois' Treasurer's Office, organized ...
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Digital Money Is Here: G20 (Thinking) Must Go Digital
This report, from authors Jose Siaba Serrate, Claude Lopez, Halit Unver, Sergey Drobyshevsky, and Pavel Trunin,...
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Utilize Existing Financial Infrastructure to Build an Equitable Post-COVID Recovery
Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic and socioeconomic inequities, a national conversation has emerged around the e...
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Financing Models to Expand Access to Electric Vehicles in California
California accelerated the adoption rate of electric vehicles (EVs) through rebates and other operational incen...
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Companies Rush to Go Private
Private capital markets have become a favored alternative source of company financing. In addition, private equ...
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Debt, Equity, and Free Money: How Local and State Governments Can Promote Minority Small Business Capital Access
This report explores how local and statewide governmental institutions can increase access to capital among Bla...