Financial Engineering
Financial engineering is a multidisciplinary field involving finance and economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering and computational methods. For cities, financial engineering can be used as a lever, providing incentives towards better performance and efficiency, promoting new sources of expertise and acting as a catalyst for partnership and cooperation.
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