In the last years the trend of the traditional finance towards the exclusive aim of the earnings maximization has been affected by the idea of a sustainable use of the financial capitals, due to the development of the Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI). Within the SRI market, the recent sector of the “Impact Investing“ has been growing. The subjects that decide to carry out this typology of investment can use a wide variety of innovative financial instruments, including the Social Impact Bonds (SIBs). The spread of the SIBs, which are configured as a public-private partnership belonging to the category of the “Outcomes based-contracts“, did not happen in the same way in all the countries. In Italy, the SIBs have been used late compared to other countries, despite the strong relevance that the Third Sector, represented by the social enterprises, has in the Italian socio-cultural context. Furthermore, the evident austerity policies that have started following the subprime crisis in 2007, have limited the economic resources of the public entities. This work gives a contribute in the outlined context: the aim is to develop and implement a model that allows defining the best combination – expressed in terms of order of time priorities – of the different social impact sectors, through which it is possible to activate social programs for satisfying the needs of the local community. The validity of the proposed optimization model, elaborated by borrowing the principles and the techniques of the Operational Research, has been verified through a concrete application to the city of Bari (Italy). The results have shown that the order of priority of the intervention sectors changes according to the objectives that concern the Public Administration and the private investor in the preliminary phase for the decision of the social program to be activated. Moreover, the outputs have highlighted that, in a territorial context characterized by different social needs, the identification of the sector in which to invest requires an accurate assessment.

Negli ultimi anni il sistema creditizio ha attivato delle strategie innovative per recuperare la fiducia persa deglienti pubblici derivante dalla crisi finanziaria del 2007. Si è così puntato ad un uso “sostenibile” dei capitali finanziari, sviluppando il c.d. filone degli investimenti sostenibili e responsabili (SRI). Nel mercato degli SRI, di recente è emerso il settore dell’Impact Investing. I soggetti che decidono di realizzare questa tipologia d’investimento possono avvalersi di un’ampia varietà di strumenti finanziari innovativi, in particolare dei Social Impact Bond(SIB). La diffusione dei SIB, che si configurano come una partnership tra pubblico e privato appartenente alla categoria dei c.d. Outcomes based-contracts, non è avvenuta allo stesso modo in tutti i Paesi. In Italia, i SIB sono stati impiegati in ritardo rispetto agli altri Paesi, nonostante la forte rilevanza che il Terzo Settore, rappresentato dalle imprese sociali, ha nel contesto socio-culturale italiano, e le evidenti politiche di austerity che, avviate a seguito della crisi finanziaria del 2007, hanno fortemente limitato le disponibilità economiche delle casse pubbliche. È nel contesto delineato che si inserisce il presente lavoro, il cui obiettivo è quello di sviluppare e implementare un modello che permetta di definire la miglior combinazione– espressa nei termini di ordine di priorità temporale –dei diversi social impact sector, tramite cui attivare i programmi sociali destinati a soddisfare i bisogni della comunità locale. La validità del modello di ottimizzazione pro-posto, costruito mutuando i principi e le tecniche della Ricerca Operativa, è verificata attraverso un’applicazione alla città di Bari. I risultati mostrano che l’ordine di priorità dei settori d’intervento cambia in ragione degli obiettivi che riguardano la Pubblica Amministrazione e l’investitore sociale nella fase preliminare di decisione del programma sociale da attivare, evidenziando come, in un contesto territoriale caratterizzato da differenti bisogni sociali, l’individuazione del settore in cui investire necessiti di un’accurata valutazione.

A decisions support model for investment through the social impact bonds. The case of the city of Bari (Italy) / Morano, Pierluigi; Tajani, Francesco; Anelli, Debora. - In: VALORI E VALUTAZIONI. - ISSN 2036-2404. - STAMPA. - 24(2020), pp. 163-179.

A decisions support model for investment through the social impact bonds. The case of the city of Bari (Italy)

Pierluigi Morano;Debora Anelli
2020-01-01

Abstract

In the last years the trend of the traditional finance towards the exclusive aim of the earnings maximization has been affected by the idea of a sustainable use of the financial capitals, due to the development of the Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI). Within the SRI market, the recent sector of the “Impact Investing“ has been growing. The subjects that decide to carry out this typology of investment can use a wide variety of innovative financial instruments, including the Social Impact Bonds (SIBs). The spread of the SIBs, which are configured as a public-private partnership belonging to the category of the “Outcomes based-contracts“, did not happen in the same way in all the countries. In Italy, the SIBs have been used late compared to other countries, despite the strong relevance that the Third Sector, represented by the social enterprises, has in the Italian socio-cultural context. Furthermore, the evident austerity policies that have started following the subprime crisis in 2007, have limited the economic resources of the public entities. This work gives a contribute in the outlined context: the aim is to develop and implement a model that allows defining the best combination – expressed in terms of order of time priorities – of the different social impact sectors, through which it is possible to activate social programs for satisfying the needs of the local community. The validity of the proposed optimization model, elaborated by borrowing the principles and the techniques of the Operational Research, has been verified through a concrete application to the city of Bari (Italy). The results have shown that the order of priority of the intervention sectors changes according to the objectives that concern the Public Administration and the private investor in the preliminary phase for the decision of the social program to be activated. Moreover, the outputs have highlighted that, in a territorial context characterized by different social needs, the identification of the sector in which to invest requires an accurate assessment.
2020
A decisions support model for investment through the social impact bonds. The case of the city of Bari (Italy) / Morano, Pierluigi; Tajani, Francesco; Anelli, Debora. - In: VALORI E VALUTAZIONI. - ISSN 2036-2404. - STAMPA. - 24(2020), pp. 163-179.
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