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Relationship Between Natural Resources and Institutions
Couttenier, Mathieu - HAL - 2008
This article analyses through a rent seeking model, the relationship between institutions' quality and natural … resources. Depending on the institutions quality, each country has a specific structural capacity to stand natural resources … resources begin to have a negative impact on institutions. As the stock of natural resources increases, this improves the …
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A Curse or a Blessing? Natural Resources in a Multiple Growth Regimes Analysis
Konte, Maty - HAL - 2012
level of democracy plays an important role while education and economic institutions have no effect. …
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On Political Regime Changes in Arab Countries
Boucekkine, Raouf; Prieur, Fabien; Puzon, Klarizze - HAL - 2014
We develop a dynamic game to provide with a theory of Arab spring-type events. We consider two interacting groups, the elite vs the citizens, two political regimes, dictatorship vs a freer regime, the possibility to switch from the first to the second regime as a consequence of a revolution, and...
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The Dynamics of Lobbying under Uncertainty: On Political Liberalization in Arab Countries
Boucekkine, Raouf; Prieur, Fabien; Puzon, Klarizze - HAL - 2013
We consider a framework à la Wirl (1994) where political liberalization is the outcome of a lobbying differential game between a conservative elite and a reformist group, the former player pushing against political liberalization in opposition to the latter. In contrast to the benchmark model,...
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Living in the garden of Eden: Mineral resources foster individualism
Couttenier, Mathieu; Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2010
Using mineral resources discoveries in the United States since 1800, we argue that mineral mining fosters individualism. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i) individuals living in states with mineral...
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Fair Intergenerational Sharing of a Natural Resource
D'Albis, Hippolyte; Ambec, Stefan - HAL - 2010
In this article, overlapping generations are extracting a natural resource over an infinite future. We examine the fair allocation of resource and compensations among generations. Fairness is defined by core lower bounds and aspiration upper bounds. The core lower bounds require that every...
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Living in the garden of Eden: Mineral resources foster individualism
Couttenier, Mathieu; Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2010
Using mineral resources discoveries in the United States since 1800, we argue that mineral mining fosters individualism. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i) individuals living in states with mineral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325722
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A non-dictatorial criterion for optimal growth models
Kama, Alain Ayong Le; Van, Cuong Le; Schubert, Katheline - HAL - 2008
There are two main approaches for defining social welfare relations for an economy with infinite horizon. The first one is to consider the set of intertemporal utility streams generated by a general set of bounded consumptions and define a preference relation between them. This relation is...
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La croissance économique au passé, au présent, à l'avenir
Bienaymé, Alain - HAL - 2014
After a few centuries of speeding up, the distribution of GNP's growth rates has widely changed all round the world. Growth is slowing down in advanced countries and has accelerated in emerging countries. Moreover growth is questioned as a matter of principle. Considering the vast array of...
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La industrialización de los recursos naturales en el marco de las nuevas estrategias económicas en América Latina
Antolín, María José Paz; Gutiérrez, David Silva - HAL - 2013
La implementación de "nuevas" estrategias económicas en América Latina se ve fuertemente condicionada por la herencia neoliberal generando una dialéctica caracterizada por elementos de cambio y de continuidad. Partiendo de este supuesto, nuestro trabajo se centra en analizar el impacto de...
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