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Alternatives to local content
Kolstad, Ivar; Kinyondo, Abel - 2015
than those typically pursued by developing countries with recently discovered petroleum reserves. We argue that local …
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Raising utility and lowering risk through adaptive sustainability: Society and the risk of wealth inequity in Western Australia
Andrich, Mark A.; Oxburgh, E. Ronald; Imberger, Jorg - 2009
The Index of Sustainable Functionality (ISF) makes it possible to analyse domains and the sustainability of multiple …
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Autonomous Vehicles: Moral Dilemmas and Adoption Incentives
Feess, Eberhard; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2022
In unavoidable traffic accidents, autonomous vehicles (AVs) face the dilemma of protecting either the passenger(s) or third parties. Recent studies show that most people prefer AVs following a utilitarian approach by minimizing total harm. At the same time, however, they would adopt an AV only...
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Sovereign Wealth Funds: An Exploratory Study of Their Behavior
Fatemi, Ali; Fooladi, Iraj; Kayhani, Nargess - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance (JEF) 15 (2011) 2, pp. 64-90
Sovereign wealth funds have recently moved to the front and center of discussion, both within the investment world and the political arena. In this paper we evaluate the differences and common features of these funds. Utilizing an ownership database, we probe the ownership, geographic, and...
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Harnessing windfall revenues: optimal policies for resource-rich developing economies
van der Ploeg, Frederick; Venables, Anthony J. - 2009
A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...
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Is Norway's bird-in-hand stabilization fund prudent enough? : fiscal reactions to hydrocarbon windfalls and graying populations
Harding, Torfinn; van der Ploeg, Frederick - 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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The Basilicata Wealth Fund: Resource Policy and Long-run Economic Development in Southern Italy
Iacono, Roberto - 2015
proposing a new resource policy for the oil-rich southern Italian region of Basilicata. The policy proposal is to establish a …
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Der Alaska Permanent Fund – Vorbild für eine Soziale Dividende?
Harnack, Astrid - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 88 (2019) 1, pp. 49-64
Nur wenige konnten in Deutschland vom starken Anstieg der Kapitaleinkommen in den letzten Jahrzehnten profitieren. Doch eine Soziale Dividende finanziert über einen Staatsfonds nach Vorbild des Alaska Permanent Funds könnte ein inklusiveres Wachstum fördern: Eine Wachstumsinzidenzanalyse mit...
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Political economy of oil resources management in Nigeria: Lessons from other countries
Eregha, Perekunah B.; Mesagan, Ekundayo P. - 2019
The study focuses on the political economy of oil resources management in Nigeria with the sole purpose of showcasing … how far the country has gone in effectively managing its crude oil proceeds. It presents a brief history on the excess … crude account as well as the sovereign wealth fund in Nigeria and then presents the models of excess oil resource management …
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Portfolio choice for a resource-based sovereign wealth fund: An analysis of cash flows
Mork, Knut Anton; Eap, Hanna Marisela; Haraldsen, … - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-20
exhaustible resources, such as oil and gas. The question is whether the SWF portfolio should underweight shares in the resource …. Subsequently, we look at the correlations between each industry's cash flow and the Norwegian government's cash flow from oil and … gas. We find a close, statistically significant, and persistent correlation for the oil and gas industry. The correlations …
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