| ID | 150009 |
| Title Proper | Resource revenue management and wealth neutrality in Norway |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Mohn, Klaus |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | An important idea behind the Norwegian oil fund mechanism and the fiscal spending rule is to protect the non-oil economy from the adverse effects of excessive spending of resource revenues over the Government budget. A critical assumption in this respect is that public sector saving is not being offset by private sector dis-saving, which is at stake with the hypothesis of Ricardian equivalence. Based on a framework of co-integrating saving rates, this model provides an empirical test of the Ricardian equivalence hypothesis on Norwegian time series data. Although the model rejects the strong-form presence of Ricardian equivalence, results indicate that the Norwegian approach does not fully succeed in separating spending of resource revenues from the accrual of the same revenues. |
| `In' analytical Note | Energy Policy Vol. 96, No.96; Sep 2016: p.446–457 |
| Journal Source | Energy Policy 2016-09 96, 96 |
| Key Words | Fiscal Policy ; Saving ; Oil Revenues ; Resource Wealth |