The aim of the article is to examine infrastructure classification and assess private financing alternativesfor major groups of physical infrastructure under ownership of state owned enterprises in Latvia.Tasks of the research include examining types infrastructure with a focus on physical infrastructure,explaining importance of physical infrastructure to economy of a country and society, studying physicalinfrastructure financing challenges and problems, conducting a research on a state owned enterprisesin Latvia, which own physical infrastructure, conducting expert interviews to reveal key challenges ofprivate financing alternatives for funding of infrastructure of state owned enterprises in Latvia as wellas drawing corresponding conclusion.Methods used are structured expert interviews, analytic hierarchy process, monographic method, documentanalysis, case study method, and literature review. The empirical research covers ten stateownedenterprises of Latvia, which own physical infrastructure. The major groups of infrastructurecovered by the research are transportation, communication and power. Following key private financingalternatives are considered- commercial bank loans, bond issues as well as public-private partnerships.Seven experts were interviewed to reveal key infrastructure financing challenges faced by stateowned enterprises. Out of seven experts, one expert represents the power industry, two experts operatein the area of communications and four are financing experts covering all infrastructure areas.At the final stage of the research, preferred alternatives for major groups of physical infrastructureunder ownership of state owned enterprises in Latvia derived from expert assessments are presentedand corresponding conclusions drawn.Only one company out of ten subject to research is financed not only by bank loans, but also issuedbonds to attract funding. None of infrastructure objects belonging to these companies is financed viapublic-private partnership.The outcome of the article is an expert interview based hierarchy of suitable financing alternatives forstudied types of infrastructure under ownership of state owned enterprises of Latvia. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.12.20858

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国有企业基础设施的私人融资替代方案

文档分析，案例研究方法和文献综述。实证研究涵盖了拥有物理基础设施的拉脱维亚的十家国有企业。研究发现的基础设施的主要类别是交通，通讯和电力。以下是主要的私人融资方案，即商业银行贷款，债券发行以及公私伙伴关系。采访了七位专家，以揭示国有企业面临的主要基础设施融资挑战。在七位专家中，一位是电力行业的专家，两位是通信领域的专家，四位是涵盖所有基础设施领域的融资专家。在研究的最后阶段，提出了专家评估得出的拉脱维亚国有企业所有权下主要的物理基础设施主要类别的替代方案，并得出了相应的结论。十个要研究的公司中，只有一家公司不仅通过银行贷款融资，而且通过发行债券来吸引资金。这些公司的基础设施对象都没有通过公私伙伴关系融资。本文的结果是，根据拉脱维亚国有企业所有制的基础设施类型，通过专家访谈基于适当的融资选择层次。DOI：http：//dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.12.20858 这些公司的基础设施对象都没有通过公私伙伴关系融资。本文的结果是，根据拉脱维亚国有企业所有制的基础设施类型，通过专家访谈基于适当的融资选择层次。DOI：http：//dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.12.20858 这些公司的基础设施对象都没有通过公私伙伴关系来融资。本文的结果是，根据专家访谈，根据拉脱维亚国有企业所有制基础设施类型研究了适合的融资方式层次。DOI：http：//dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.12.20858