An international financial centre represents a technology, a method of generating information about new opportunities and risks. We describe the value of information in an international financial centre using China's solar industry and Hong Kong's financing of that industry as an example. For more, see: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2495259

Benefits from securitisation well exceed the current offering of securitised debt and assets. An international financial centre ready to securitise a sunrise industry can fill a large void -- and earn large profits. Hong Kong's own experience has been to make casino bet instruments, rather than productive assets. Yet, it does not have to be that way. For more, see: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2495259

How can an international financial centre dominate a sunrise industry's value chains? In this presentation, we show how US financial institutions disintermediated China's solar energy financing value chains -- locking out rivals in Hong Kong. For more, see: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2495259

What drives the development of an international financial centre? We show how to estimate the economic impacts of a sunrise industry on a financial centre like Hong Kong. We also estimate the supply/demand for various types of securities used to fund the solar industry. For more, see: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2495259

How much money will a financial centre's financial institutions book from a sunrise industry. We illustrate the market sizing exercise -- showing how to estimate demand for various types of securities from a new sector. For more, see: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2495259

Want to build a world-class financial centre? Dont focus on banks. Focus on the sunrise industry that banks will lend to (finance). We review the standard approach to international financial centre development -- showing why its wrong. For more, see: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2495259

Want to make a world-class financial centre? Dont focus on banks. Focus instead on creating the new industries whose money your banks will handle. This presentation reviews the way that financial centres grow -- and talks presents the law which can help foment such a financial centre. For more, see https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2495259

The first in a series of informal videos I made for my class at Columbia U in Comparative Budgeting and Public Financial Management. Focuses on the course's skills and cases. The quality isn't great -- but why not to share with those interested?

The second in a series of informal videos I made for my class at Columbia U in Comparative Budgeting and Public Financial Management. Focuses on using class skills to succeed in mid-terms and finals (ie analysing real-world, practical cases). The audio quality isn't great -- but why not to share with those interested?

The fourth in a series of informal videos I made for my class at Columbia U in Comparative Budgeting and Public Financial Management. Focuses on using data to take decisions about government budgets and financial statements. The quality isn't great -- but why not to share with those interested?