RBA Annual Conference – 2014 Financial Flows and Infrastructure Financing

Cover: Financial Flows and Infrastructure Financing

Editors: Alexandra Heath and Matthew Read

A volume, containing the conference papers and discussions, was published on 29 July 2014.

The theme of the Reserve Bank of Australia's annual conference was designed to support one of the key priorities for the G20 during Australia's year as the chair. It was jointly organised with the Productivity Commission and the Lowy Institute for International Policy.

The conference brought together academics from local and international universities, representatives from international financial institutions, members of the G20's Investment and Infrastructure Working Group, Australian policymakers, and institutional investors. They discussed: the factors affecting the ability of savings to flow across borders to the most productive investments; the role of financial market development; the challenges specific to infrastructure financing; the ability of public-private partnerships to address these challenges; and the potential for institutional investors to meet the financing needs of infrastructure providers.

Content

  • Introduction
    Alexandra Heath
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  • Capital Flow Policies, Monetary Policy and Coordination
    Marcel Fratzscher
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  • Discussion
    James Morley
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  • External Funding and Long-term Investment
    Philip R Lane
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  • Discussion
    Guy Debelle
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  • Infrastructure and Corporate Bond Markets in Asia
    Torsten Ehlers, Frank Packer and Eli Remolona
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  • Discussion
    Jim Turnbull
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  • Public Infrastructure: A Framework for Decision-making
    Emily Poole, Carl Toohey and Peter Harris
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  • Discussion
    Era Dabla-Norris
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  • Closing the Infrastructure Finance Gap: Addressing Risk
    Jordan Z Schwartz, Fernanda Ruiz-Nuñez and Jeff Chelsky
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  • Discussion
    Anne Krueger
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  • How the Private Sector Can Improve Public Transportation Infrastructure
    Clifford Winston
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  • Discussion
    John Quiggin
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  • Finance and Public-Private Partnerships
    Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic
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  • Discussion
    Frédéric Blanc-Brude
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  • Panel: PPPs – Lessons Learned
    David Hawes, Maria Monica Wihardja, Peter Regan and Gerassimos Thomas
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  • Panel Discussion: The Role of Institutional Investors
    André Laboul, Frédéric Blanc-Brude, Leo de Bever, Jan Dehn,
    Michael Hanna and Shemara Wikramanayake
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  • Biographies of Contributors
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  • Glossary
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  • List of Conference Participants
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ISBN 978-0-9924944-0-7 (Print)
ISBN 978-0-9924944-1-4 (Online)