February 4, 2025
Financial Assets

Asset-level assessment of climate physical risk matters for adaptation finance

Database model We develop a database model to collect and logically connect extra financial, climate and financial information of individual physical assets and firms. The database model provides a granular and comprehensive overview of the characteristics of firms by collecting information on their productive assets, their business lines’ composition and performance, and their financial and

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Financial Assets

Does bitcoin fit the definition of good money?

Three philosophers walk into a crypto-currency. Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin, I’d argue, is a slightly inaccurate title. Messrs Bailey, Rettler and Warmke have composed a book that is a meticulous and unphilosophically lucid examination of the origins and properties of bitcoin. No Hegel, no Husserl, no fuss. ‘We don’t prophesy,’ they state.

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Intangible Assets

World Intangible Investment Highlights – Better Data for Better Policy

Geneva, 25 June 2024 Key trends and insights Co-published annually by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in partnership with the Luiss Business School (LBS), the World Intangible Investment Highlights reveal that intangible investments grew at three times the rate of tangible investments between 2008–2023, proving resilient despite economic uncertainty and tighter monetary conditions. Indeed,

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