期刊名称：International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
电子版ISSN：2146-4553
出版年度：2019
卷号：9
期号：4
页码：81-90
DOI：10.32479/ijeep.7721
出版社：EconJournals
摘要：Attractiveness of a country petroleum fiscal system plays significant role in investment location decisions of multinational oil companies. This study
modeled the influence of attractive petroleum fiscal regime dimensions on marginal oil fields’ (MOFs) investment climate in Malaysia. The dimensions
examined in this study are fiscal administration/economy, fiscal certainty, fiscal efficiency, and fiscal equity/neutrality. Data was collected through
survey of accounting, business and taxation experts’ within Malaysian MOFs subsector. It was analyzed using partial lease square – structural equation
modeling version 3 and Special Package for Social Science version 19. The results showed that fiscal certainty, fiscal efficiency and fiscal equity/
neutrality were found to have significant positive influence on MOFs investment climate, adversely insignificant influence of fiscal administration/
economy on MOFs investment climate was reported. The result has established weaker link between petroleum fiscal regime administration and
MOFs’ investment climate in Malaysia, thus highlighting the scope for improvement on this dimension. Therefore, it is recommended that concerned
authorities should consider strengthening of the administrative framework of MOFs’ fiscal regime, thereby enhancing its investment climate. To the
best of our knowledge this is the first study that employed the use of experts’ perception in modeling the influence of attractive fiscal regime dimensions
on oil and gas fields’ investment climate, and eventually investment location decisions.
