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Living in the garden of Eden: Mineral resources foster individualism
Couttenier, Mathieu; Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2010
. 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 resources are more individualistic and support less redistribution by the government … ; (ii) the higher the number of mines in a states, the lower the support for governmental redistribution and the higher the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930183
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Living in the garden of Eden: Mineral resources foster individualism
Couttenier, Mathieu; Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2010
. 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 resources are more individualistic and support less redistribution by the government … ; (ii) the higher the number of mines in a states, the lower the support for governmental redistribution and the higher the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325722
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Education, Corruption and the Natural Resource Curse
Ruiz, Max Iván Aladave; Garcìa-Peñalosa, Cecilia - HAL - 2008
The empirical evidence on the determinants of growth across countries has found that growth is lower when natural resources are abundant, corruption widespread and educational attainment low. An extensive literature has examined the way in which these three variables can impact growth, but has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793414
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A Curse or a Blessing? Natural Resources in a Multiple Growth Regimes Analysis
Konte, Maty - HAL - 2012
The literature on the impact of an abundance of natural resources on economic performance remains inconclusive. In this paper we consider the possibility that countries may follow different growth regimes, and test the hypothesis that whether natural resources are a curse or a blessing depends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933874
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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 … setting the rate of redistribution to the highest possible level, thereby extending the period during which she has full … equilibrium outcome and adopts the opposite strategy, i.e. she chooses the lowest level of redistribution that allows her to stay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933882
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933899
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322910
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750750
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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 dependency. It is shown that for each country, a threshold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738686
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899774