Sovereign debt and financial stability

02-Feb-2012

In-depth analysis from the OECD addresses the financial market dimension of sovereign debt challenges to assist policy makers in designing, adopting, and implementing appropriate policies.

Institutional investors and long-term investment

31-Jan-2012

Long-term capital is in short supply and has become increasingly so since the 2008 financial crisis. This has profound implications for growth and financial stability. The OECD is exploring these issues ...

Financial crisis management and the use of government guarantees

06-Dec-2011

These articles were prepared for a symposium on bank failure resolution and crisis management which focused, in particular, on the use of guarantees and the spill-overs between the credit qualities of ...

Global insurance market trends

25-Nov-2011

First published in November 2011, this new annual report analyses insurance market statistics collected by the OECD to monitor the insurance industry’s overall performance and health.

Capital flows and the OECD Code of Liberalisation of Capital Movements

02-Nov-2011

The Capital Movements Code provides a balanced framework for capital account openness. It is the only multilateral legal instrument with comprehensive coverage of capital movements. This includes inflows ...

Accession reviews by the Insurance and Private Pensions Committee

31-Oct-2011

These reports describe the main features of the financial, and insurance and private pensions markets of countries that have recently joined the OECD.

Creating a better business environment for financing business, innovation and green growth

05-Sep-2011

Richard Pelly and Helmut Krämer-Eis

This article explains the European Investment Bank Group’s role in creating a better environment for financing business, innovation and green growth and provides examples of ways that the financing of innovation can be improved against the backdrop of a flexible, business-oriented EU framework.<

Financing future growth: the need for financial innovations

05-Sep-2011

Zvi Bodie and Marie Brière

This article underlines the need for long-term investors to finance growth and the need to create instruments better suited to their needs, particularly in the context of the recent regulatory changes.

How to foster investments in long-term assets such as infrastructure

05-Sep-2011

Thierry Déau

Mobilising private sector funding is essential in bridging the infrastructure funding gap.  Stable and accessible programmes of infrastructure projects and public-private partnerships (PPPs) are key in attracting private sector investors, complemented by adequate regulation.

Investing in infrastructure: getting the conditions right

05-Sep-2011

Martin Stanley

This article discusses how to mobilise more institutional equity into infrastructure. If the regulatory and investment framework is right, more institutional money can be invested in infrastructure to deliver the high levels of capital expenditure needed.

OECD/IOPS 2011 Global Forum

25-26 October Cape Town, South Africa

Analysis of pension funds and public pension reserve funds

Pension Markets in Focus