Corporate hedging under a resource rent tax regime

Energy Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 458-468

  Frestad, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dual taxes; Hedging; Neutral tax; Nonfinancial firms; Rent taxation; Resource tax; Special purpose tax; Tax base asymmetry

Indexed keywords

DUAL TAXES; INCOME TAX; RESOURCE RENTS; RISK EXPOSURE; TAX BASIS;

PROFITABILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT;

TAXATION;

CORPORATE STRATEGY; NATURAL RESOURCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TAX SYSTEM;

NORWAY;

EID: 74149089314     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2009.10.009     Document Type: Article

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