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Does Ownership Matter? The Performance and Efficiency of State Oil vs. Private Oil (1987-2006)
Wolf, Christian O. H. - 2009
This paper investigates the existence of ownership effects in the global oil and gas industry, i.e. whether there are systematic performance and efficiency differentials between National Oil Companies (NOCs) and privately-owned International Oil Companies (IOCs). After discussing key issues of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217790
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International business cycles : quantifying the effects of a world market for oil
Gars, Johan; Olovsson, Conny - 2017
To what extent is the international business cycle affected by the fact that an essential input (oil) is traded on the world market? We quantify the contribution of oil by setting up a model with separate shocks to efficiencies of capital/labor and oil, as well as global shocks to the oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657454
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Governance in mitigating the effect of oil wealth on wealth inequality : a cross-country analysis of policy thresholds
Ndieupa, Henri Njangang; Asongu, Simplice; Tadadjeu, Sosson - 2021
The study assesses the role of governance in modulating the effect of oil wealth on wealth inequality in 45 countries in the world. The empirical evidence is based on Pooled Ordinary Least Squares and the Generalised Method of Moments. The findings show that oil rents unconditionally increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601149
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Governance in mitigating the effect of oil wealth on wealth inequality : a cross-country analysis of policy thresholds
Njangang, Henri; Asongu, Simplice; Tadadjeu, Sosson; … - 2021
The study assesses the role of governance in modulating the effect of oil wealth on wealth inequality in 45 countries in the world. The empirical evidence is based on Pooled Ordinary Least Squares and the Generalised Method of Moments. The findings show that oil rents unconditionally increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217146
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Natural resources and wealth inequality : a cross-country analysis
Tadadjeu, Sosson; Njangang, Henri; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2021
This study investigates the impact of natural resources on wealth inequality as a first attempt on a panel of 45 developed and developing countries over the period 2000-2014. Using the Generalized Method of Moments, the results provide stong evidence that natural resources increase wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238505
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Natural resources and wealth inequality : a cross-country analysis
Tadadjeu, Sosson; Ndieupa, Henri Njangang; Asongu, Simplice - 2021
This study investigates the impact of natural resources on wealth inequality as a first attempt on a panel of 45 developed and developing countries over the period 2000-2014. Using the Generalized Method of Moments, the results provide stong evidence that natural resources increase wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489866
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Can International Trade and Investment Law Protect Foreign Investments in the Resources Sector?
Mitchell, Andrew D.; Munro, James - 2013
This chapter provides a snapshot of how international trade and investment law can protect foreign investments in the … investments treaties, and how these can apply to the resources sector. For example, this chapter gives an assessment of whether … increases in taxation affecting investments in the resources sector, or revocations of mining licences and permits, could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014163769
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The Rise of Russian Transnational Corporations
Kalotay, Kalman - 2007
This article explores the main features of outward foreign direct investment and transnational corporations from Russia since 1991. The universe of Russian transnational corporations shows a great variety in its ownership structures, motivations and strategies to invest abroad. There are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051806
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Vertical integration and valuation of international oil companies
Misund, Bård; Osmundsen, Petter; Sikveland, Marius - 2014
This paper studies financial statement information from the 50 largest international oil and gas companies during 1992 to 2011 and evaluates their relation to market values. In particular, we examine how this relationship is affected by accounting method choice (successful efforts versus full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428751
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Introduction to Special Issue on the Oil Industry
Hinton, Diana Davids - 2011
This issue brings together five articles on the modern petroleum industry. Two cover the growth of the industry in the early twentieth century: Michael Adamson's study of the development by independent oilman Ralph Lloyd of California's coastal oil region; and the study by Lisa Bud-Frierman,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133196