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An industry standard for the infrastructure asset class

Feb. 06, 2018
From ad hoc to world class Today infrastructure investors use ad hoc benchmarks for unlisted infrastructure investment. They know that’ snot good enough. At EDHECinfra, we are establishing an industry standard for the infrastructure asset class. And we’ve made significant process. We are establishing a framework for data collection and developing asset pricing techniques to measure the risk adjusted performance...
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Building benchmarks for infrastructure investors: a long but worthwhile journey

Jan. 01, 2018
This blog was originally published on the World Bank’s PPP Blog Website. It’s past time for proper infrastructure benchmarks The Argentinian presidency of the G20 opens this month. All the signs indicate that it will be marked by a focus on infrastructure investment. Already, the G20 and OECD have announced a wide-scale data collection initiative for the purpose of creating...
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A Structural Credit Risk Model for Illiquid Debt

Jun. 11, 2016
We develop a structural credit risk model relying on cash flow data to derive credit risk metrics that is useful for illiquid assets for which a time series of prices is not observable. Our methodology is designed to require a parsimonious dataset of observable inputs. ...
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Cash Flow Dynamics of Infrastructure Project Debt: Empirical evidence and dynamic modelling

May. 01, 2016
The objectives of this paper are to document the statistical characteristics of debt service cover ratios (DSCRs) in infrastructure project finance, and to develop and calibrate a model of DSCR dynamics. Advanced stochastic modelling of infrastructure project debt has the potential to considerably improve credit risk measures....