UDC 33
REDUCING RISKS AND ATTRACTING INVESTMENTS IN A CYCLICAL ECONOMY: THE ROLE OF GUARANTEED BUYER CONTRACTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE BONDS
Abstract:
The article draws attention to the key obstacle to scaling the infrastructure for processing secondary material resources in the form of high investment risks and a shortage of long-term financing. A financial model is proposed that combines two institutions: long-term contracts with a guaranteed buyer to eliminate market risk and infrastructure bonds to attract capital from institutional investors. The article analyzes the mechanisms of their synergetic interaction. Long-term contracts with a guaranteed buyer increase the credit rating of the bonds, while infrastructure bonds transform conditional future government obligations into real investments. A step-by-step sequence of creating a project company, structuring a transaction, issuing securities and servicing debt through guaranteed revenue is considered. The advantages for all stakeholders and the conditions of implementation in the context of building a cyclical economy are revealed.

Keywords:
cyclical economy, contracts, guaranteed buyer, infrastructure bonds
Funding:
The study was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation and the Kuban Science Foundation as part of the 2024 competition “Conducting Fundamental Scientific Research and Exploratory Scientific Research by Individual Research Groups” (regional competition), 24-18-20049 “Regional System of a Circular Economy: Institutional Models and Development Technologies (using the Krasnodar Territory as an example)”

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