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The role of public infrastructure for firm location and international outsourcing
Egger, Hartmut; Falkinger, Josef - 2003
This paper presents a model in which final goods producers outsource intermediate input production. Intermediate inputs are differentiated and their production can be located at home or abroad. The model is used to examine competitive location policy in a (two-country) free trade agreement...
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Strategic environmental policy and the mobility of firms
Richter, Philipp M.; Runkel, Marco; Schmidt, Robert C. - 2019
The loss of international competitiveness of domestic industries remains a key obstacle to the implementation of effective carbon prices in a world without harmonized climate policies. We analyze countries' non-cooperative choices of emissions taxes under imperfect competition and mobile...
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Estimating fluctuations in oil and gas investment
Dahl, Roy Endré; Osmundsen, Petter - 2014
macro picture affects cost levels, the supplies market and recruitment opportunities. The paper outlines factors that …
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Is Norway's bird-in-hand stabilization fund prudent enough? : fiscal reactions to hydrocarbon windfalls and graying populations
Harding, Torfinn; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2009
We estimate fiscal reaction functions for non-hydrocarbon tax and public spending shares of national income and for debt management strategies adopted by Norway and compare these with rules that would prevail under the permanent income hypothesis and bird-in-hand rule. We conclude that the...
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Oil exports and the Iranian economy
Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2009
This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focus on short...
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The impact of the fracking boom on Arab oil producers
Kilian, Lutz - 2016
This article contributes to the debate about the impact of the U.S. fracking boom on U.S. oil imports, on Arab oil exports, and on the global price of crude oil. First, I investigate the extent to which this oil boom has caused Arab oil exports to the United States to decline since late 2008....
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Country-specific oil supply shocks and the global economy : a counterfactual analysis
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2015
This paper investigates the global macroeconomic consequences of country-specific oil-supply shocks. Our contribution is both theoretical and empirical. On the theoretical side, we develop a model for the global oil market and integrate this within a compact quarterly model of the global economy...
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One hundred years of oil income and the Iranian economy : a curse or a blessing?
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2013
This paper examines the impact of oil revenues on the Iranian economy over the past hundred years, spanning the period 1908-2010. It is shown that although oil has been produced in Iran over a very long period, its importance in the Iranian economy was relatively small up until the early 1960s....
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Forecastability and statistical characteristics of aggregate oil and gas investments on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
Lorentzen, Sindre; Osmundsen, Petter - 2016
We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). A unique and detailed dataset containing data from 109 different fields on the NCS between 1970 and 2015 was employed. A set of 1080 autoregressive distributed...
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Cost performance on the Norwegian continental shelf
Lorentzen, Sindre; Osmundsen, Petter - 2016
economy and focused great attention on the cost side of the sector. Enhancing cost efficiency and curbing cost overruns now … top the agenda. It is not difficult to find examples of projects suffering extensive cost overruns. What factors underlie … industry compare with other industries with respect to cost performance? …
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