Diversification in Gulf hydrocarbon economies and interactions with energy subsidy reform: lessons from Kuwait by Shehabi, M

“…Using illustrations from Kuwait, this argument is tested with simulations using an economy-wide general equilibrium model that embodies key features of the Kuwaiti economy—including subsidies, sovereign wealth funds, industrial oligopolistic structure with collusive pricing, and a labour market that depends heavily on a segregated expatriate labour force. …”

Finance’s Social License? Sugar, Farmland and Health by Kiah Smith, Geoffrey Lawrence

“…As finance actors such as asset management firms, pension funds, private equity funds, state owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds engage in speculative farmland investment, commodity futures trading, and the conversion of farmland into a financial asset, power within agro-industrial food supply chains becomes increasingly concentrated. …”
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Economic statecraft with Chinese characteristics : the use of commercial actors in China's grand strategy by Norris, William J., Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Can we Finance the Energy Transition? by Ian Johnson

“…Long term institutional capital (such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds) are an important growth area for energy funding. …”
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Contracts, not concrete : de-risking private finance of sustainable infrastructure in emerging markets by O'Dea, Liam James

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Foreign institutional investment in China's real estate market by Zhou, Ye,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Placing the production of investment returns: an economic geography of asset management in public pension plans by Urban, MA

“…<p>Traditionally, asset owners such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds have relied almost exclusively on financial intermediaries to invest their assets. …”

Quantifying Dutch disease effects and asymmetry in economic responses to oil price volatility in Kuwait by Shehabi, M

“…The potential asymmetry is mitigated by idiosyncratic adjustment mechanisms, namely the sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and expatriate labour movement, especially when oligopolies are regulated. …”