Revisiting the Determinants of Sovereign Wealth Fund Creation: The Influence of Structural Economic Changes on Sovereign Wealth Fund Rationales

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Brief Overview

In this paper, I discuss the effects of structural changes in the global economy on the reasons why countries create SWFs, showing that the increase of the scope of SWFs as a policy tool has broadened the country-level determinants of SWF creation.

Author

• Katharina Johanna Fleiner, University of Geneva