Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/238458 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper Series No. 1101
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
The paper provides an empirical analysis of factors affecting the use of capital market instruments for financing infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) projects. The findings of the paper contain useful policy guidance as the data provides some evidence to suggest that banks play a role in crowding-out bond finance. This is due to the traditionally close relationships banks enjoy with projects which allow them an advantage over bonds. Banks typically finance projects at financial close and bonds refinance banks after projects are operational. The findings are in accordance with the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) experience in promoting the use of capital market instruments to finance PPP infrastructure projects. Accordingly, the findings suggest that, more than underwriting greenfield risk, MDBs have a role to play in supporting bond holders through risk mitigation, project appraisal and project structuring, as bond holders are less capable of mitigating and absorbing project risk than banks.
Subjects: 
Basel III
infrastructure project finance
capital markets
JEL: 
G15
G18
G21
H54
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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