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Paddy Carter

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…

4 min readApr 13, 2023

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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…

6 min readDec 20, 2022

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Nominal interest rates and the cost of electricity (continued)

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Paddy Carter

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…

6 min readNov 16, 2022

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Is investment low because private return requirem

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Paddy Carter

A framework for investing with altruism, by Jonathan Harris.

[link to paper]

17 min readJun 5, 2022

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A framework for investing with altruism, by Jonathan Harris.

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Paddy Carter

The economics of investment subsidies — draft terms of reference.

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

8 min readApr 27, 2022

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Paddy Carter

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…

8 min readFeb 3, 2022

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Paddy Carter

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…

7 min readJan 10, 2022

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Paddy Carter

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

[link to paper]

11 min readDec 15, 2021

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Paddy Carter

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…

8 min readApr 13, 2021

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Indirect effects of investment on poverty are not trickledown economics.

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Paddy Carter

Rich countries must subsidise the investments needed for electricity grids in developing countries…

Caveats: this is my personal opinion and has nothing to do with my employer. I’ve posted this to solicit feedback that will improve the…

6 min readSep 10, 2020

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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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