Infrastructure
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Presentations by Dieter Helm
Infrastructure Investment
14th June 2012
Presentation to the Reform conference: Building Confidence in Infrastructure 14th June 2012, London
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Publications by Dieter Helm
The Sustainable Borders of the State
27th February 2012
Published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy Winter 2011, Volume 27 Issue 4.
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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....
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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
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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...
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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
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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.
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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...
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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
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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,...
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