Full Description
This book provides a preliminary attempt to understand the impact investors' preferences and characteristics. It offers an empirical insight of the main features characterizing social risk of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) and explores the correlation existing between social risk and financial return. It assesses case studies of social impact investment architectures and their legal and operational limits. It also analyzes new trends in social impact measurement, focusing on the Spanish and Swedish experiences. The book concludes with a road map of priorities and policy strategy for social impact investments development.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction; Mario La Torre, Mario Calderini.- Chapter 2. Investing with Impact: An Integrated Analysis Between Academics and Practitioners; Rosella Carè and Karen Wendt.- Chapter 3. Social Risk and Financial Returns: Evidences from Social Impact Bonds;Elisabetta Scognamiglio, Alessandro Rizzello, and Helen Chiappini.- Chapter 4. The Use of Payment by Results in Healthcare: A Review and Proposal;Alessandro Rizzello, Rossana Caridà, Annarita Trotta, Giuseppe Ferraro, and Rosella Carè.- Chapter 5. Impact Investing Innovation: Bringing Together Public, Private and Third Sectors to Create Greater Value: The Case of the Public Private Partnership Initiative for the New Public Hospital of Treviso; Filippo Addarii, Fiorenza Lipparini, and Francesca Medda.- Chapter 6. The Evolution of a Social Service Crowdfunding Platform Towards an Investing Logic: The Meridonare Case Study; Carmen Gallucci, Michele Modina, and Antonio Minguzzi.- Chapter 7. Benefit-Cost Evaluation of Prevention and Early Intervention Measures for Children and Youth in Sweden; Lars Hultkrantz.- Chapter 8 Impact Measurement for Social Innovation: Analysis of the Spanish Third Sector; Marta Solórzano-García, Julio Navío-Marco, and Mercedes Valcárcel-Dueñas.- Chapter 9. Social Impact Investments Beyond Social Impact Bonds: A Research and Policy Agenda; Helen Chiappini.
