Interest Rates, Fuel Subsidies, and Investment Friendliness in Southeast Asia

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10.2991/rais-18.2018.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Fuel Subsidies, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, Interest Rates, Investment Friendliness, Southeast Asia

Abstract

The question of investment determinants has been widely debated in the economic field, with scholars such as Daude and Stein (2007) and Waheed (2015) citing institutional quality as key while Ibrahim (2011), Jongwanich and Kohpaiboon (2008) cite financial market conditions as key. However, the role of fuel subsidies in affecting investment friendliness in smaller-scale oil producing countries have not been sufficiently addressed. My paper investigates determinants of investment friendliness in Southeast Asia with special attention to fuel subsidies. Specifically, in my project, I examined the interactions between lending interest rates, fuel subsidies, and gross fixed capital formation to carry out qualitative case studies on oil producing countries. I theorize that countries with higher fuel subsidies are likely to be less investment friendly than countries with lower fuel subsidies. This project, by closely examining fuel subsidies, sheds new light on the rarely acknowledged issue of fuel subsidies and investment friendliness.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Siangling Lu
PY  - 2018/08
DA  - 2018/08
TI  - Interest Rates, Fuel Subsidies, and Investment Friendliness in Southeast Asia
BT  - Proceedings of the 10th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (RAIS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 217
EP  - 222
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/rais-18.2018.37
DO  - 10.2991/rais-18.2018.37
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