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Official Forecasts and Management of Oil Windfalls

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  • Rick Van der Ploeg
  • Torfinn Harding

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Official forecasts for oil revenues and the burden of pensioners are used to estimate forward-looking fiscal policy rules for Norway and compared with permanent-income and bird-in-hand rules. The results suggest that fiscal reactions have been partial forward-looking with respect to the rising pension bill, but backward-looking with respect to oil and gas revenues. Our measure of permanent oil income derived from official forecasts performs better than the one derived from a time-series model of oil income. Solvency of the government finances might be an issue with the fiscal rules estimated from historical data. Simulation suggests that declining oil and gas revenue and the costs of a rapidly graying population will substantially deteriorate the net government asset position by 2060 unless fiscal policy becomes more prudent or current pension and fiscal reforms are successful.

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  • Rick Van der Ploeg & Torfinn Harding, 2009. "Official Forecasts and Management of Oil Windfalls," OxCarre Working Papers 027, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford.
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    Keywords

    oil windfalls; official forecasts; forward-looking fiscal policy rules; permanent income hypothesis; graying population; debt sustainability; Norway;
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    JEL classification:

    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
    • Q33 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Resource Booms (Dutch Disease)

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