Projekt:Banklab/Seminare

Institutional Investors

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	Public Pensions: What's the Real Story? - The New School	Public Pensions: What's The Real Story? Center for New York City Affairs | http://newschool.edu/milano/nycaffairs Conventional wisdom blames generous public-sector pensions for state and local budget deficits and for diverting funds from other essential services. Amid demands that officials roll back pension promises, it's clear the problem--and possible solutions--are not nearly so simple. What's at stake for retirement security and government fiscal stability? A conversation about the history, purpose, costs and benefits of public pensions. MILANO THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MANAGEMENT AND URBAN POLICY | http://www.newschool.edu/milano Alternative Funding Mechanisms for Science, R&D	409 views
	IJ Online Seminar: Are pension funds the answer to long term financing for UK infrastructure?
	Introducing Emerging Managers to CalPERS Investments Webinar
	CalPERS Asset Liability Management Workshop Segment 1
	CalPERS Asset Liability Management Workshop Segment 2
	ESG Opportunities Workshop - Segment 2: Developing a Total Fund Process
	ESG Opportunities Workshop - Segment 3: Total Fund Strategy for ESG

Development Economics

Lfd.	Titel	Abstract	Bewertung
1	Poor Economics
2	Eduardo Rodríguez-Montemayor: Diaspora Direct Investment Policy: Options for Development	In today's globalized world, goods and capital are flowing as never before. The movement of people across borders has also enlarged significantly. About 215 million people live away from their home country and many members of such Diasporas are prospering abroad and are eager to extend such success by investing in their homeland. In this paper we explore the impacts of Diaspora Direct Investment (DDI) on international development, i.e. we look at how direct investments from foreign companies connected to Diaspora members (i.e. diaspora-owned firms or firms with diaspora members in the top management) boost productive activities in the home country of such people. One of the main advantages of DDI is that it is more stable than other types of FDI, particularly during unfavorable economic conditions, because of the emotional connections of diaspora members to their country of origin. Moreover, such companies engaging in DDI are often seen as the ¿first movers¿ into a country due to potential advantages they have in terms of knowing the culture and having social networks in the home country. This may act as a catalyst for further investment from other companies by providing market and operational information about the homeland to potential investors. We focus particularly on the experience of Latin America and analyze policy options to design comprehensive diaspora strategies that maximize investments, institutional development and the flow of talent and ideas. Such strategies, which would ideally involve Diaspora members in their formulation, can give Diaspora entrepreneurs support in terms of networking, mentoring and training (e.g. business incubators). Nonetheless, a more mature stage of diaspora engagement would be achieved with the development of venture capital funds as well as other sources of financing (e.g. matching funds). The smart utilization of digital technologies for connecting Diasporas empowers all such policy options.
3	BS Javorcik, Ç Özden, M Spatareanu… - Journal of Development …, 2011: Migrant networks and foreign direct investment	In this paper, we examine the relationship between the presence of migrants in the US and the US foreign direct investment in 56 ... The presence of a diaspora can serve as a channel of information transfer across international borders and thus contribute to greater integration of ...	120 citations
4	T Debass, M Ardovino - The United States Agency for International …, 2009 : Diaspora direct investment (DDI): The untapped resource for development		7 citations
5	K Gillespie, L Riddle, E Sayre, D Sturges - Journal of International Business …, 1999: Diaspora interest in homeland investment	DIASPORA INTEREST IN HOMELAND INVESTMENT ... Forty-five percent of the returned questionnaires indicated no interest in foreign direct investment in Armenia, compared with 18 percent for the Cuban sample, 23 percent for the Iranian sample, and 22 percent for the ...	53 citations
6	A Smart, JY Hsu - The Review of International Affairs, 2004: The Chinese diaspora, foreign investment and economic development in China
7	M Hergnyan, A Makaryan - Economy and Value Research Center and …, 2006: The Role of the Diaspora in Generating Foreign Direct Investments in Armenia	In view of the increasing role of Diasporan and emigrant networks for the home countries in the globalized world, this paper examines the impact of Armenian Diaspora on generating Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Armenia between 1994 and 2004. The ...	7 citations
8	P Aroca, WF Maloney - The World Bank Economic Review, 2005: Migration, trade, and foreign direct investment in Mexico	Networks. An emerging literature stresses the importance of existing diaspora networks for lowering transaction and information costs. ... 3. Estimated Migration Push and Pull Elasticities to Foreign Direct Investment by State. ...	49 citations
9	D Kapur - Journal of Human Development, 2001: Diasporas and technology transfer	seems to work with regard to encouraging diaspora investment and involvement. This may be through concrete status allocations (as with the Person of India Origin status in India, dual nationality in Mexico, appointment to government positions). It may also be a direct appeal to ...	126 citations
10	YN Kuznetsov - 2006: Diaspora networks and the international migration of skills: how countries can draw on their talent abroad		114 citations
11	REB Lucas - 2001: Diaspora and development: highly skilled migrants from East Asia	On the other hand, China's diaspora has been a major source of foreign investment, and of investments that generate employment in particular. By 1995, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan were the sources of more than two-thirds of China's accumulated direct investments. ...	47 citations
12	D Leblang - American Political Science Review, 2010 : Familiarity breeds investment: diaspora networks and international investment	DAVID LEBLANG University of Virginia What explains cross-national patterns of international portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI)? While existing explanations focus on the credibility of a policy maker's commitment, we emphasize the role of diaspora networks. ...	18 citations
13	D Leblang - Manuscript, Department of Politics: Diaspora Bonds and Cross Border Capital	Migrant communities can also play a more direct role in facilitating cross-national portfolio investment by helping reduce barriers to entry-- 9 Kapur and McHale (2006) refer to this as “branding” and argue that the Indian diaspora has created a brand name by signaling the ...	11 citations
14	S Mahroum, C Eldridge, AS Daar - International Journal on Multicultural …, 2006 : Transnational diaspora options: How developing countries could benefit from their emigrant populations	to facilitate this process (Lucas 2001). In 1998, for example, 70 per cent of China's $50 billion foreign direct investment (FDI) came from the large Chinese diaspora. Likewise, India's technology-oriented diaspora stand behind ...	23 citations
15	E Lodigiani - Economie internationale, 2009: Diaspora externalities and technology diffusion	Promoting knowledge exchange through diaspora networks (The case of the People's Republic of China), in Wescott, C., Brinkerhoff, J., (Eds), Converting Migration Drains into ... Migrant networks and foreign direct investment, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4046. ...	16 citations
16	JM Brinkerhoff: Diaspora mobilization factors and policy options	Remittance capture entails not only increasing the volume and productivity of remittances, but also policies that seek specifically to encourage diaspora “foreign” direct investment. The PRC's support for industrial parks to nurture and host OCP business ventures is one example. ...	13 citations
17	L Riddle, JM Brinkerhoff… - Public administration and …, 2008: Partnering to beckon them home: public‐sector innovation for diaspora foreign investment promotion	This is the case in India, where diaspora members played a significant role not only as direct investors (approximately 16% of FDI to the information technology sector) but as brokers of investment relationships, leading to the much-lauded success of India's IT industry (Saxenian ...	9 citations
18	B Graham - APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper, 2010 : Political Risk and Diaspora Direct Investment	I argue that diasporans are better informed about the political and economic situation in the homeland than are other potential foreign investors; that higher levels of information allows diaspora investors to anticipate and respond to changes in risk more ...	2 citations
19	J Durand, EA Parrado, DS Massey - International Migration Review, 1996: Migradollars and development: A reconsideration of the Mexican case	among the tastuanes because instead of traditional tunics or coats, they have taken to wearing beach towels that bear the emblems of their diaspora: the stars and ... Thus, the indirect effects of consumer spending plus the direct effects of productive investment ultimately raise ...	436 citations

Digital Currency

Digital Currency (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	A seminar about linking Digital Currency and the capital supply for microfinance in migration sending countries.
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn about Digital Currency and microfinance

Insurance

Group Insurance (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	A seminar about group insurance
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn cooperative models of insurance

Makromarkets

Cooperative Insurance (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	A seminar about cooperative insurance
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn cooperative models of insurance

Regional Risk (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	Learn about Regional Risk Sharing and link results with remittances from migration sending area to migration receiving area
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn about remittances as informal transnational risk sharing mechanism

Consumption Risk (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	A seminar about the link between consumption risk sharing and remittances
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn fundamentals of Diaspora finance

GDP Bonds (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	A seminar about the link GDP Bonds, international risk sharing and remittances
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn fundamentals of Diaspora Finance

Aggregate Income Risk (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	A seminar about global risk sharing with aggregate income insurance, which is a better risk sharing institution than the informell family-based remittance risk-sharing
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn fundamentals of Diaspora Finance

Weather Insurance (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	A seminar about global risk sharing with weather insurance insurance, which is a better risk sharing institution than the informell family-based remittance risk-sharing
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn fundamentals of Diaspora Finance

Political Risk (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	A seminar about global risk sharing with policy prediction markets
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn fundamentals of Diaspora Finance

Housing Finance

Lfd.	Titel	Abstract	Bewertung
	Race and the Subprime Crisis: The Future of Minority Neighborhoods - The New School	Some critics blame the Community Reinvestment Act for the mortgage meltdown that prompted the current deep recession. Others point to the abuses of subprime lending and Wall Street manipulation. Yet questions about the impact of the economic collapse on African American communities—and about the future of neighborhood stability, consumer access to credit, and the role of race in public policy—remain unanswered. As the federal government acts to reverse the economy's decline, what have we learned, and what does the future hold?
	Community-Based Development in New York - The New School for Public Engagement	For decades, deliberations over land use in New York City have included developers, community boards, elected officials, and city agencies such as the Department of City Planning. Do the people who live and work in city neighborhoods have a sufficient voice? Do residents improve the process or impede progress? Who is best positioned to determine a neighborhood's needs, and what are the best structures for public participation? What does the future hold for the city as it recovers from the current recession? Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy | http://www.newschool.edu/milano	266 views

Behavioral Finance

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	Robert Shiller delivers Beattie Family Lecture	Economist and author Robert Shiller of Yale University delivered the first annual Beattie Family Lecture in Business Law.	1962 views

Social Finance

Lfd.	Titel	Abstract	Bewertung
0	ILO projects with a social finance component inventory's results
1	Asset Development: Innovations for Reaching the Financially Underserved	Led by Eric Schurenberg, editor-in-chief of BNET.com, this session at the 2010 Social Enterprise Conference focuses on the barriers that prevent low-income individuals from building assets and how asset building is related to poverty reduction. Speakers include Justine Zinkin '02, executive director of Credit Where Credit Is Due; Jane Katz, regional affairs officer and director of education programs at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Erik Shumar, vice president and community reinvestment act officer at Amalgamated Bank; and Robert Duvall, former president and CEO of the National Council of Economic Education. To learn more about the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School, please visit www.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise	188 views
2	Values-Based Investing: Building Financial and Social Capital	This session at the 2011 Social Enterprise Conference focused on the role that financial performance plays in the field of impact investing and its ability to reach its immense potential. The session was moderated by Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund and adjunct associate professor at Columbia Business School. Speakers included Steve Beck, cofounder and CEO of Spring Hill Equity Partner; Rick Defieux '84, cofounder of SJF Ventures; and Ben Powell '05, founder and managing partner of Agora Partnerships.	142 views
3	From Socially Responsible Investing to Sustainability	Mary Jane McQuillen, EMBA '07, of ClearBridge Advisors leads a discussion at the 2010 Social Enterprise Conference about the motivating factors for increased investor participation in socially responsible investing. This session at the 2010 Social Enterprise Conference features Professor Vinay Nair, founder of Ada Investments; Peter Knight, president of Generation Investment Management; Valerie Cook Smith, vice president of corporate sustainability at Citigroup; and Bryan Corbett, principal in global government and regulatory affairs at the Carlyle Group. To learn more about the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School, please please visit www.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise	453 views
4	How to Incentivise Sustainable Finance - Long Finance Panel Discussion	Many critics claim that the problem with economics is that it has no theory of value. From early economists, such as Smith, Ricardo and Marx, to later economists, pinning value to economics has proved disputatious. In turn, problems with understanding value reverberate to problems with money, problems with the long term and problems with sustainability. This panel discussion at this Long Finance conference will examine the question of "How to Incentivise Sustainable Finance"? The panellists are (from left to right): - Professor Michael Mainelli - Dr Matthew Kiernan - Valéry Lucas-Leclin - Joss Tantram The full downloadable versions of this and the other parts of the Long Finance Conference are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/into-the-folly-of-value-reformin...	54 views
	Sir Ronald Cohen: "Why Do We Need Social Capital Markets?"	Given such developed capital markets, why do we need social capital markets? What is social capital? What do these types of investors bring? Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures and who has been described as both "the father of British venture capital" and "the father of social investment," spoke about his leadership experience during his more than 40-year career in impact investing, private equity, and venture capital. Discussion was moderated by Professor Bruce Kogut, director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.Center for Leadership and Ethics.	918 views

Seminar	Abstract	Voraussetzung	Status
Local Currency	Local currency is a social technology to multiply the impact of distant learning on Diaspora communities. Learn more about it.	Babel: en-2 This user is able to contribute with an intermediate level of English. Benutzer nach Sprache

Seminar	Abstract	Voraussetzung	Status
Microfinance	Why do the world bank and development banks want to bring Diaspora communities and microfinance together ? The participants learn the basics of microfinance and in the seminars he get an insight into country rating procedures which enables microfinance portfolios to get access to capital markets.	Babel: en-2 This user is able to contribute with an intermediate level of English. Benutzer nach Sprache

Seminar	Abstract	Voraussetzung	Status
Social Impact Bonds	The Big Society concept in UK want to empower communities and delegate government services from Big Goverenment to community services. What role can market-based social investment play for Diaspora communities ? Social Impact Bonds set incentives for non-profit community services to focus on outcomes.	Babel: en-2 This user is able to contribute with an intermediate level of English. Benutzer nach Sprache

Gemeinwohlökonomie (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	Get an introduction to social entrepreneurship from the Gemeinwohlökonomie
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn fundamentals of Social Entrepreneurship

Social Ventures (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	Get an introduction to social entrepreneurship from the Gemeinwohlökonomie
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn fundamentals of Social Ventures

Case Studies BoP (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	Analyze case studies about Business with the Bottom Of Pyramid Consumers
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn fundamentals of Social Ventures

Global Philantropy (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	Get an introduction to social entrepreneurship from the Gemeinwohlökonomie
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn fundamentals of Global and Diaspora Philantropy

Lottery Saving Bonds (Betreuer: n.n.)
Kurzbeschreibung:	Get an introduction to credit sources for social entrepreneurship
Zielgruppe	Learners who want to learn fundamentals of Global and Diaspora Enterpreneurship