Green Investment: Incorporate Environment, Social, And Government Factors In Investment Decision

Has Government Investment Crowded Out Private Investment in India?

Pritha Mitra In India, the relationship between government investment and private investment is a controversial issue. Economic theory suggests that government investment, financed by borrowing, reduces the loanable funds available for private investment, driving up interest rates, and reducing the level of private investment. If, as Keynesians argue, the positive impact of increased government...

Private Investment and Government Protection

Hurricane Katrina did massive damage because New Orleans and the Gulf Coast were not appropriately protected. Wherever natural disasters threaten, the government – in its traditional role as public goods provider – must decide what level of protection to provide to an area. It does so by purchasing protective capital, such as levees for a low-lying city. (“Protection” also consists of not impos...

Green Investors and Corporate Investment

Green investing, or socially responsible investing (SRI), which refers to making investment decisions according to both financial and ethical criteria, has become increasingly popular in recent years. This paper explores the effects of ethical screening on the investment decisions of firms that fail the screen (’polluting’ firms) and on their decisions to reform so as to pass the screen. The pa...

Fuzzy Investment Decision Making

Recent literature on fuzzy numbers is rich of several approaches to approximate operations between fuzzy numbers. The desirable feature is to preserve the real shape of the fuzzy numbers resulting from the operations, without loosing in simplicity and applicability and in goodness of the approximations. In some recent papers we introduce a representation of the fuzzy numbers, based on the use o...

Green Investment Funds: Organic Farming