Infrastructure

  • Publications by Dieter Helm

    Green Growth - Infrastructure and National Accounts

    12th May 2011

    Article from InsideTrack Issue 28 Spring 2011A Better Route: Mainstreaming the Green Economy We aspire to a low carbon economy, but we don’t really know what it looks like. As a result there’s a mismatch between the narrative and economic policy. As the contributors to this edition of Inside Track demonstrate, the debate is not settled, but there are some strong arguments and compelling options available to policy-makers if they want to make green a driver of growth....

    Infrastructure

  • Presentations by Dieter Helm

    Redefining the models for private sector investment in infrastructure – The RAB Model

    9th February 2011

    Slides for the UK Infrastructure Summit: New Era, New Priorities, New Challenges London  

    Infrastructure

  • Publications by Dieter Helm

    Rethinking the Economic Borders of the State

    18th November 2010

    How should the shape of the state change to confront the twin challenges of economic growth and environmental sustainability? In this essay, Dieter Helm argues that a new direction is needed which owes more to the rules-based order of Hayek than the short-run demand management of Keynes. New thinking about how the state should invest in economic and social infrastructure to create growth while preventing the depletion of resources is required, with a national  balance sheet and investment...

    Europe Infrastructure Regulation

  • Presentations by Dieter Helm

    Applying the RAB approach to infrastructure

    13th July 2010

    City and Financial ConferenceCreating an Efficient Funding Market for Infrastructure InvestmentJuly 13th 2010, London

    Infrastructure

  • Presentations by Dieter Helm

    "The infrastructure challenge - provision, funding and delivery" Projects International Conference, Brussels.

    17th March 2010

    Slides will be available here on the day.

    Infrastructure

  • Publications by Dieter Helm

    The Evolution of Infrastructure and Utility Ownership and its Implications

    9th December 2009

    Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 25, Number 3, 2009, pp.411–434 Abstract The paper documents the significant changes of ownership since the infrastructure utilities were privatized and, in particular, the shifts from the initial focus on dispersed retail share ownership through takeovers to more concentrated ownership and the emergence of private equity and infrastructure funds. In the process, there has been substantial financial engineering and balance sheets have been geared up...

    Infrastructure

  • Publications by Dieter Helm

    "Infrastructure investment, the cost of capital, and regulation: an assessment", Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 25:3, pp307-326.

    2nd December 2009

    New article from Dieter Helm

    Infrastructure Regulation

  • Publications by Dieter Helm

    The Challenge of Infrastructure Investment in Britain

    1st September 2009

    Chapter in "Delivering a 21st Century Infrastructure for Britain" co-authored with Ben Caldecott and James Wardlaw. Published by Policy Exchange. The British economy at the end of the first decade of the 21st century is not in good shape. The credit crunch and subsequent recession have revealed deep structural weaknesses.The state of the public finances is widely agreed to be unsustainable and additional spending in the cause of a Keynesian stimulus has added to the debt. Consumer spending,...

    Infrastructure

  • Media articles by Dieter Helm

    Britain must save and rebuild to prosper

    4th June 2009

    Financial Times piece. How did the UK get into such an economic mess? There are many causes, but central to any explanation is that consumption has been unsustainably high at least since 2000, and this excess has been based upon ever-higher levels of private and public debt. In simple terms, we have been writing a large mortgage on future generations, without bequeathing them a compensating set of assets. The implication is that a sustained economic recovery depends upon a major rebalancing of...

    Energy Infrastructure

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    It’s not over yet: the implications of the credit crunch

    29th October 2007

    2007 will go down in economic history as a roller-coaster – it’s not often that we see a global credit crunch which requires over half a trillion dollars to stabilise, and a run on a major London bank. The former occurs roughly every quarter of a century, the latter on a century scale – though there were no UK bank runs in the entire twentieth century.

    Infrastructure Regulation