Wouter Thierie

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a general review of the characteristics of small-scale public-private partnership (PPP) and identify overarching concerns, including transaction costs, minimum size requirement and increasing popularity and recommendations for further development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of European regional trade agreements on European export patterns was studied. And the authors found that only the extensive margin is positively affected by trade agreements, while the impact on total exports and on the intensive margin is insignificant.

TL;DR: This article reviewed the characteristics of infrastructure as an investment class and found that there is a wide heterogeneity in risk-return characteristics across sectors, regions, and stage of development, creating an uncertainty that explains why the flow of funds from institutional investors toward infrastructure does not reach its full potential.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a regression analysis of the loan's spread on four categories: project, loan, bank characteristics and the economic environment by using a new data set of InfraDeals containing data on bank spreads of more than 700 infrastructure projects worldwide from 2006 to 2016.