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less than the marginal resource rents equals the expected capital gains on reserves of natural resources plus the expected … end up with lower sustainable consumption and are worse off, especially if seepage is strong, the number of rival groups …
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depletion are faster than demanded by the Hotelling rule. As a result, the country substitutes away from resources to capital so … that it saves and invests more than a homogenous society. The power struggle boosts output. Nevertheless, fractionalization …-pool externalities. Fractionalization induces, however, positive genuine saving as measured by the World Bank. …
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The political economy of resource rich countries is surveyed. The empirical evidence suggests that countries with a large share of primary exports in GNP have bad growth records and high inequality, especially if the quality of institutions and the rule of law are bad. The economic argument that...
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Oil exporters typically do not consider below-ground assets when allocating their sovereign wealth fund portfolios, and ignore above-ground assets when extracting oil. We present a unified framework for considering both. Subsoil oil should alter a fund’s portfolio through additional leverage...
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This paper shows that proximity to major international financial centers seems to reduce business cycle volatility. In particular, we show that countries that are further from major locations of international financial activity systematically experience more volatile growth rates in both output...
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This paper diagnoses the symptoms of the Dutch disease in a two-sector stochastic endogenous growth model. A productive, low skill-intensive primary sector causes the currency to appreciate in real terms, thus hampering the development of a high skill-intensive secondary sector and thereby...
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regressions, while indicators for human capital and political and ethnic instability lose significance. The coefficient of a dummy …
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This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and...
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resource revenues relax constraints on the supplies of capital and of government funds. The level of saving should be somewhat …
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investment share, initial human capital, trade openness, the national income share of natural resource exports and population … growth, but capital account restrictions lower volatility and boost growth. These effects are especially strong in resource …
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