| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w14562
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 14562
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| Sovereign Wealth Funds: Stylized Facts about their Determinants and Governance |
| Joshua Aizenman; Reuven Glick
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| 发表日期 | 2008-12-11
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| 出版年 | 2008
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper presents statistical analysis supporting stylized facts about sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). It discusses the forces leading to the growth of SWFs, including the role of fuel exports and ongoing current account surpluses, and large hoarding of international reserves. It analyzes the degree to which measures of SWF governance and transparency compare with national norms of behavior. We provide evidence that many countries with SWFs are characterized by effective governance, but weak democratic institutions, as compared to other nonindustrial countries. We also present a model with which we compare the optimal degree of diversification abroad by a central bank versus that of a sovereign wealth fund. We show that if the central bank manages its foreign assets with the objective of reducing the probability of sudden stops, it will place a high weight on the downside risk of holding risky assets abroad and will tend to hold primarily safe foreign assets. In contrast, if the sovereign wealth fund, acting on behalf of the Treasury, maximizes the expected utility of a representative domestic agent, it will opt for relatively greater holding of more risky foreign assets. We discuss how the degree of a country's transparency may affect the size of the foreign asset base entrusted to a wealth fund's management, and show that, for relatively low levels of public foreign assets, assigning portfolio management independence to the central bank may be advantageous. However, for a large enough foreign asset base, the opportunity cost associated with the limited portfolio diversification of the central bank induces authorities to establish a wealth fund in pursuit of higher returns. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics
; Monetary Policy
; International Economics
; Trade
; International Finance
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14562
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572236
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Joshua Aizenman,Reuven Glick. Sovereign Wealth Funds: Stylized Facts about their Determinants and Governance. 2008.
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