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The paper presents the issue of insolvency risk of local government entities,including its determinants and legal and economic tools to used to mitigateinsolvency risk of local government entities.

The paper presents the issue of insolvency risk of local government entities,including its determinants and legal and economic tools to used to mitigateinsolvency risk of local government entities.

Municipal investments and related expenditures are an important field of activity at the subnational government tier. There are many ways of financing public investment tasks using different financial structures. However, the key role involves financial risk and other factors which determine access to financial sources (inter alia types of investment, debt limit, purpose of financing, collateral, risk, efficiency). The purpose of this article is to point out the main obstacles and challenges in the financing of municipal investment. In the research process revenues, transfers, and debt instruments have been considered. The author has also paid attention to a hybrid form of financing which integrates different kinds of instruments. As a result, the paper presents the crucial problems in investment financing which influence the investment dynamic and financial decisions made by self-government entities. The general findings are regarding: debt limits and debt policy, a revenue system which is not sound, poor experience in using structural and hybrid financing, problems with cash flow and the maturity of financial instruments, financial standing and public procurement law.

The contradictions and conflicts were, are and will be widespread. There are in all human communities, even in the world of politics, economy and finance. A potential source of conflicts are contradictions. When a conflict of interest is disclosed, a conflict situation arises. In addition to the conflict that brings positive effects there are also destructive conflicts that contribute to the disorganization states, regional communities, institutions and firms. The contradictions of financial interests and destructive conflicts in the sphere of finance are at the heart of research undertaken in this article. The key research problem is therefore the answer to the question of how to minimize the negative consequences of destructive conflicts in the sphere of finance. The main objective is to develop a theoretical and methodological framework for the theory of conflicts in the financial sphere, and to formulate an original concept of good integrated governance, based mainly on assumptions of ordoliberalism. ; Sprzeczności i konflikty były, są i będą zjawiskiem powszechnym i wszechobecnym. Występują we wszystkich ludzkich wspólnotach, również w świecie polityki, gospodarki i finansów. Potencjalnym źródłem konfliktów są sprzeczności. Kiedy sprzeczność interesów zostaje ujawniona, powstaje sytuacja konfliktowa. Oprócz konfliktów interesów, które przynoszą skutki pozytywne, występują też konflikty destruktywne, które przyczyniają się do dezorganizacji państw, społeczności regionalnych, instytucji i przedsiębiorstw. Sprzeczności interesów finansowych i konflikty destruktywne w sferze finansów znajdują się w centrum rozważań w niniejszym artykule. Kluczowym problemem badawczym jest odpowiedź na pytanie o sposoby minimalizowania negatywnych konsekwencji konfliktów destruktywnych w sferze finansów. Celem głównym jest opracowanie podstaw/ram teoretyczno-metodycznych do teorii konfliktów w sferze finansów wraz ze sformułowaniem oryginalnej koncepcji good integrated governance, opartej głównie na założeniach ordoliberalizmu.

This book is among the first to address the issue of assessing the efficiency of sustainable development financing from a theoretical and methodical point of view. The innovative nature of research is expressed through the study of new phenomena in finance including sustainable financial systems, sustainable finance, ESG risk and individual and institutional motivations of financial managers in the sustainability concept. The book aims to draw attention to the significant gap in the existing research.The concept of Sustainable Development, if placed in an economic category, requires a lot of attention, but seeing the cognitive category from the perspective of the discipline of finance, the latter is unsatisfactory, with questions remaining unanswered. At the same time, the rank problem, its strategic dimension and the amount of financial resources allocated and disbursed for the purposes of focusing around sustainable development, identification of financial phenomena accompanying this category is seen as a priority. Most measures financing Sustainable Development and measures of public spending efficiency are measures subject to rigor and rules due to their specificity, which means actions aimed at increasing efficiency are treated as a priority. This book will be of interest to leading representatives of academia, practitioners, executives, officials, and graduate students in economics, finance, management, statistics, law and political sciences.

1. Introduction -- 2. Sustainability in Finance and Economics -- 3. Sustainable Development Versus Green Banking: Where Is the Link? -- 4. Sustainability, Innovation, and Efficiency: A Key Relationship -- 5. Socially Responsible Financial Markets -- 6. Institutional Investments and Responsible Investing -- 7. Patronage in the Financing of Social and Sustainable Projects -- 8. Sustainable Capital Market -- 9. Sustainable Public Finance and Debt Management -- 10. Environmental, Social and Governance Risk versus Company Performance -- 11. Sustainable Financial Systems -- 12. Green Finance Concept: Framework and Consumerism -- 13. Public–Private Partnerships as a Mechanism of Financing of Sustainable Development -- 14. Social Reporting of Egyptian Islamic Banks: Insights from Post-Revolution Era

AbstractIn conditions of limited natural resources, growing social awareness, and ESG risk, sustainability and the pressure to be sustainable are gaining importance. Legislative requirements, good practices and recommendations as well as the stakeholders themselves expect from market participants, especially from the enterprise sector, that they will incorporate sustainability in their activities. Enterprises undertake adaptation activities towards sustainability by creating sustainable value based on their business models. The article aims to systematize the state of knowledge on how companies create sustainable value. Research results in this area are dispersed, and more studies discussing this topic comprehensively are needed. The article fills the gap in research by reviewing the existing studies on creating sustainable value. The analysis of publications was based on the academic databases of Elsevier Scopus and Web‐of‐Science. 101 publications were reviewed, and 31 categorization variables related to the area of research and issues addressed in scientific publications were created. Using a multidimensional correspondence analysis, three homogeneous clusters of publications were obtained: group I refers to articles concerning enterprises of various sizes (micro, small, SME, and start‐up); group II includes publications on Asia and Australia, which appeared in 2020 or later; group III concerns articles related to the research of large production companies in developed European countries. The result shows that companies build sustainable value in various ways, influenced by company's location and size. Among the dominant patterns of incorporating sustainable value, the following are indicated: building a sustainable supply chain, innovations, building relationships with stakeholders and consumers, sharing economy.

One of the key challenges for climate policies is the identification of strategies that will effectively support the implementation of environmental goals. Environmental policies are connected with other development policies carried out by governments. In order to comprehensively shape environmental policy, it is important to understand the interactions between sustainable development goals (SDGs) as well as their impact on environmental goals. Employing econometric modeling based on the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) method and full-factorial analysis, the authors identify a number of statistically significant relationships between the implementation of sustainable development goals and the environmental variable represented by greenhouse gas emissions. Analysis reveals that implementation of particular sustainable development goals, namely SDG4 (Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities) and SDG17 (Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development), explicitly facilitate the achievement of environmental policies. In addition, other SDGs exert an indirect influence on environmental goals through their reinforcing interactions with SDG4 and SDG17 variables. These are: SDG1 (End poverty), SDG3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being), SDG8 (Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, and productive employment) and SDG15 (Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests and halt biodiversity loss). These findings have important implications for proper identification of effective government policy instruments which indirectly support the achievement of environmental goals. ; 8 ; 1-22 ; 14

"This book explores the intellectual answers to the problems in functioning of the present-day financial markets and institutions, states and governments. It explores the subjects of financial risk, financialization, moral hazard, macro, micro-prudential policy and public, economic and institutional policies as well toward financial stability"--

Environmental risks, in particular climate change and environmental pollution, are among the key challenges faced by modern governments nowadays. Environmental risks are associated with specific costs and expenditures necessary to mitigate their negative effects. In this context, the financial system plays a significant role, particularly the public financial system, which allocates and redistributes public resources and has an impact on market participants by imposing environmental taxes. This study assessed the interdependence between environmental degradation and public expenditure, financial sector development, environmental taxes, and related socioeconomic policies. The aim was to diagnose and define the relationship between environmental degradation and sustainable fiscal instruments used in the financial system. The original research approach adopted in the study is the inclusion of variables representing a sustainable approach to assessment of the financial system. Two groups of European Union countries were analyzed for the period 2008–2017, namely, converging economies from Central and Eastern Europe and the largest developed economies of Western Europe. The authors found a strong relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and fiscal instruments, especially expenditure on research and development, and the development of the financial sector. In the case of environmental taxes, their impact differed depending on the country, being predominantly beneficial in countries with higher greenhouse gas emissions but unfavorable in countries with lower emissions levels.

Environmental risks, in particular climate change and environmental pollution, are among the key challenges faced by modern governments nowadays. Environmental risks are associated with specific costs and expenditures necessary to mitigate their negative effects. In this context, the financial system plays a significant role, particularly the public financial system, which allocates and redistributes public resources and has an impact on market participants by imposing environmental taxes. This study assessed the interdependence between environmental degradation and public expenditure, financial sector development, environmental taxes, and related socioeconomic policies. The aim was to diagnose and define the relationship between environmental degradation and sustainable fiscal instruments used in the financial system. The original research approach adopted in the study is the inclusion of variables representing a sustainable approach to assessment of the financial system. Two groups of European Union countries were analyzed for the period 2008–2017, namely, converging economies from Central and Eastern Europe and the largest developed economies of Western Europe. The authors found a strong relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and fiscal instruments, especially expenditure on research and development, and the development of the financial sector. In the case of environmental taxes, their impact differed depending on the country, being predominantly beneficial in countries with higher greenhouse gas emissions but unfavorable in countries with lower emissions levels. ; 12 ; 1-18 ; 17