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Energy Prices and Alberta Government Revenue Volatility

Landon, Stuart - 2014

Alberta government needs a revamped resource revenue stabilization fund to overcome the effects of wild swings in resource revenue and spending. Energy prices change substantially and unpredictably, causing revenue planning trouble for the Alberta government. Adjusting to these movements...

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Commodity Price Volatility and Tax Revenue : Evidence from Developing Countries

Ehrhart, Helene - 2016

.In this paper we assess the impact of commodity price volatility on tax revenues, while existing works were concentrated on … country-specific indices which measure the volatility of the international price of 41 commodities in the sectors of … agriculture, minerals and energy. We find robust evidence that tax revenues in developing countries are hurt by the volatility of …

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Resource Blessing, Revenue Curse? Domestic Revenue Effort in Resource-Rich Countries

Crivelli, Ernesto - 2014

This paper uses a newly constructed revenue dataset of 35 resource-rich countries for the period 1992-2009 to analyze the impact of expanding resource revenues on different types of domestic (non resource) tax revenues. Overall, we find a statistically significant negative relationship between...

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Government responses to oilfield discoveries : impact of resource wealth on non-resource tax revenues

Lartey, Abraham - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 15 (2024), pp. 1-11

It has often been argued that countries that produce natural resources mobilize less non-resource tax revenues than other countries. In this paper, we exploit the exogenous variation in the timing of giant oilfield discoveries to estimate the causal impact of natural resources on taxation. The...

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Fiscal Resilience Building : Insights from a New Tax Revenue Diversification Index

Compaoré, Ali - 2020

revenue diversification reduces tax revenue volatility, thus bringing to the data long-held views about the prominence of tax …

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Does Independent Political Spending Affect State Tax Policies, Revenues and Expenditures?

Tazhitdinova, Alisa; Robinson, Sarah - 2022

We study to what extent U.S. state tax policy, tax revenues and expenditures are affected by independent political contributions. Using the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling for identification, we study tax policy outcomes in states where independent spending by corporations...

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Programs, prices and policies towards energy conservation and environmental quality in China

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014

China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety of...

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Energy prices, subsidies and resource tax reform in China

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014

The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign the market a decisive role in allocating...

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Energy price reform in China

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2018

Energy Price Reform in ChinaThe Chinese leadership has determined to assign the market a decisive role in allocating resources. To have the market to play that role, getting the energy prices right is crucial because this sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the...

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Migration and tax yields in a devolved economy

Foreman-Peck, James S.; Zhou, Peng - 2016

Households may migrate between jurisdictions to secure preferred mixes of collectively sup-plied services and taxation. But devolution of taxes to sub-national jurisdictions could reduce expected tax revenue if some move to lower tax regimes, constraining devolved government policy. This paper...

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