Climate risk and private participation projects in infrastructure: Mitigating the impact of locational (dis)advantages
ISSN: 0025-1747
Article publication date: 27 July 2019
Issue publication date: 9 January 2021
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of climate risk on the success vs failure of foreign direct investments (FDIs) in private participation infrastructure (PPI) projects. The authors also consider the extent to which project-level characteristics mitigate such risks.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors study a sample from the World Bank covering 18,846 projects in 111 countries from 2004 to 2013. The authors apply logistic regressions to determine the impact of climate risk and mitigating project characteristics on project failure.
Findings
The authors find that higher levels of climate risk at the host country level are associated with higher risk of project failure. The authors also find that the disadvantage of higher climate risk is weakened by two project-level characteristics, namely, the inclusion of host government ownership in the project consortium and the size of the project.
Originality/value
The research contributes to the current debate about the impact of climate risks on international business ventures. The authors demonstrate that climate risk is a locational disadvantage for FDI in PPI projects. The authors establish that the “fittest” projects in locations characterized by higher climate risk tend to be those that involve host government participation in their ownership structure as well as those of larger sizes.
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Acknowledgements
Erratum: It has come to the attention of the publisher that the article, Nathaniel C. Lupton, Alfredo Jiménez, Secil Bayraktar, Dimitrios Tsagdis, (2019) “Climate risk and private participation projects in infrastructure: Mitigating the impact of locational (dis)advantages” published in Management Decision contained an error in the author affiliations for Alfredo Jiménez and Dimitrios Tsagdis. These errors were introduced in the production process and have now been corrected in the online version. The publisher sincerely apologises for these errors and for any inconvenience caused.
Citation
Lupton, N.C., Jiménez, A., Bayraktar, S. and Tsagdis, D. (2021), "Climate risk and private participation projects in infrastructure: Mitigating the impact of locational (dis)advantages", Management Decision, Vol. 59 No. 1, pp. 51-67. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-02-2019-0236
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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