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The impact of sovereign wealth funds on global financial markets
Beck, Roland; Fidora, Michael - 2008
This paper analyses the impact of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) on global financial markets. It presents back-of-the-envelope calculations which simulate the potential impact of a transfer of traditional foreign exchange reserves to SWFs on global capital flows. If SWFs behave as CAPM-type...
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The Gulf Cooperation Council countries – economic structures, recent developments and role in the global economy
Sturm, Michael; Strasky, Jan; Adolf, Petra; Peschel, Dominik - 2008
In the wake of high and rising oil prices since 2003, the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have seen dynamic economic development, enhancing their role in the global economy as investors and trade partners. Real GDP growth has been buoyant, with non-oil activity expanding...
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Staatsfonds: Muss Deutschland sich schützen?
Donges, Juergen B.; Eekhoff, Johann; Franz, Wolfgang; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010378205
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Fiscal consolidation after COVID-19: Issues and policy options in sub-Saharan Africa
Nair, Vedanth; Phillips, David; Prinz, Daniel; Warwick, Ross - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit sub-Saharan African economies hard, exacerbating debt and debt servicing cost issues that a range of countries in the region - including Ghana and Nigeria - already faced. This report examines the fiscal context in sub-Saharan Africa and the issues and options for...
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Economic reactions to public finance consolidation - a survey of the literature
Briotti, Maria Gabriella - 2005
focusing on episodes of changes in fiscal policies provide in turn evidence that under certain circumstances austerity measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606190
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Complex dimensions of climate policy: the role of political economy, capital markets, and urban form
Marz, Waldemar - 2019
This dissertation deals with the complex and multifaceted issue of climate change and climate policy. Since the problem touches upon many disciplines and also subfields within economics, the present study tries to bridge the gaps between different areas and dimensions of economic analysis....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019193
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Eläkevarat ja riskien jako työeläkejärjestelmässä
Lassila, Jukka; Valkonen, Tarmo - 2019
contributions over time under demographic and economic risks. Smoothing is affected by the revisions in long-term forecasts and is … thus imperfect. As a partially funded defined-benefit system, demographic risks and asset yield risks directly affect the … contributions. In a general equilibrium setup, these risks also affect wages and thus pension benefits and replacement rates. We …
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China's real estate sector and the impacts of its possible disorder on Chinese economy and the euro area
Kaaresvirta, Juuso; Kerola, Eeva; Nuutilainen, Riikka - 2021
China's real estate and construction sector has served as a major engine of economic growth in recent decades and the sector now plays an oversized role in the economy. Much of that growth has been debt-fuelled, with the indebtedness of developers climbing to unprecedented levels. After...
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Fossil Resources and Climate Change – The Green Paradox and Resource Market Power Revisited in General Equilibrium
Pfeiffer, Johannes - 2017
This dissertation was written by Johannes Pfeiffer while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in November 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the department of economics of the University Regensburg in December 2016. The thesis studies unintended...
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Sovereign Patent Funds (SPFs): Next-generation trade defence?
Lee-Makiyama, Hosuk; Messerlin, Patrick - 2014
While there is an increasing demand for a discipline in the next generation FTAs that restricts SOEs in international trade, there is less debate on the proliferation of sovereign patent funds (SPFs) that are increasingly using intellectual property to engage in discriminatory industrial policy...
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