China’s pension system is facing a large gap of more than one trillion RMB. The investment efficiency of the social security fund therefore receives widespread attention in academic circles. We collected data of stocks held by the Chinese National Council for Social Security Fund (CNCSSF) from 2004 to 2012 to research the stocks’ investment efficiency, distinguishing between direct investment b...

The impact off the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stabilization programme has been a subject of great controversies. This study therefore investigated policy recommendations contained in IMF Programme on development Nigeria’s external sector. In specific terms, examined fiscal deficit, exchange rate, foreign direct investment (FDI), degree trade openness, interest rate and bank credit to dom...

We present a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model in which resource-rich government allocates its excess resource rents between stabilization fund and the facilitation of costly domestic fund-raising activities sovereign wealth funds (SWF), holds portfolio government-linked companies (GLCs). Despite being less productive efficient, GLCs' operation benefits from scale economies ti...

The Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) nations understood that having enough money in easily accessible foreign accounts would be beneficial to the government times of fiscal crisis, currency devaluation, natural economic calamity, and even political upheaval help cushion sustainable growth. Between Q1 2005 Q4 2020, study looked at impact Nigeria's sovereign wealth fund on country's ability sustain de...

Does task significance increase job performance? Correlational designs and confounded manipulations have prevented researchers from assessing the causal impact of task significance on job performance. To address this gap, 3 field experiments examined the performance effects, relational mechanisms, and boundary conditions of task significance. In Experiment 1, fundraising callers who received a ...