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The price is wrong: a review

This is going to be a negative review, because I disagree with the book’s central idea, but the book contains much I agree with.[1] For…

Dec 8, 2024

Dec 8, 2024

Impact and duration

I have been thinking about the relationship between impact and the duration of investments. When should an impact investor tie their money…

Apr 13, 2023

Apr 13, 2023

Nominal interest rates and the cost of electricity (continued)

I wrote a blog about how higher nominal interest rates won’t necessarily result in higher real electricity tariffs from renewables…

Dec 20, 2022

Nominal interest rates and the cost of electricity (continued)

Dec 20, 2022

Is investment low because private return requirem

One of the things I learnt when writing the paper Risk, Return and Impact was how private equity investors think about required returns. I…

Nov 16, 2022

Is investment low because private return requirem

Nov 16, 2022

A framework for investing with altruism, by Jonathan Harris.

[link to paper]

Jun 5, 2022

A framework for investing with altruism, by Jonathan Harris.

Jun 5, 2022

The economics of investment subsidies — draft terms of reference.

I am looking for an academic economist (or economists) who:

Apr 27, 2022

Apr 27, 2022

Attribution (not contribution)

Private businesses are usually financed by more than one investor, each of which may want to attribute some share of what those businesses…

Feb 3, 2022

Feb 3, 2022

Carbon taxes

This is a response to a Twitter thread with Eric Lonergan and Max Jerneck about climate policy and the economics of externalities, which I…

Jan 10, 2022

Jan 10, 2022

Impact Investing: a theory of social enterprises, by Ben Roth.

[link to paper]

Dec 15, 2021

Dec 15, 2021

Indirect effects of investment on poverty are not trickledown economics.

CDC is sometimes accused of practicing trickledown economics, because we talk about the indirect effects of investments and we want to…

Apr 13, 2021

Indirect effects of investment on poverty are not trickledown economics.

Apr 13, 2021

Paddy Carter

Paddy Carter

Development finance researcher, lapsed foreign aid academic and macroeconomics hobbyist. Day job head of research at BII. More info here: https://sites.google.c

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