Shanghai municipal investment corporation: Extending government power through financialization under state entrepreneurialism

Exploration and practice in promoting Shanghai municipal open government information

I am very happy to be exploring today, together with all the domestic and international experts and practitioners in open government information present, this global question about which we all share concern. Implementing open government information and establishing transparent government are important routes to enhancing the transparency of government work, advancing the construction of politi...

Index Investment and the Financialization of Commodities

The authors found that, concurrent with the rapidly growing index investment in commodity markets since the early 2000s, prices of non-energy commodity futures in the United States have become increasingly correlated with oil prices; this trend has been significantly more pronounced for commodities in two popular commodity indices. This finding reflects the financialization of the commodity mar...

Financing State and Local Government Infrastructure Investment

In this note, I will examine policy that might encourage greater public infrastructure investment. Much of the discussion will center around H.R. 1452, a bill that was introduced to the House of Representatives in 1999. This bill provided a novel financing method, the primary purpose of which was to provide interest-free loans to state and local governments that would use the money to improve i...

Optimizing Capital Investment Decisions at Intel Corporation

Oglethorpe Power Corporation