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Fractionalization and the Fight over Natural Resources: Ethnicity, language, religion, and the onset of civil war

Brunnschweiler, Christa N; Bulte, Erwin H - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2009

We use three different measures of fractionalization (with varying potential for members of one fraction to … combination of ethnic fractionalization and resource wealth seems to translate into a greater risk of war, but the same is not … true for linguistic and religious fractionalization. This is consistent with the “greed hypothesis” as a driver of conflict …

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The Political Economics of the Arab Spring

Hodler, Roland - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2013

The Arab Spring has led to very different outcomes across the Arab world. I present a highly stylized model of the Arab Spring to better understand these differences. In this model, dictators from the ethnic or religious majority group concede power if their country is oil-poor, but can stay in...

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Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Resource abundance, dependence and the onset of civil wars

Brunnschweiler, Christa N; Bulte, Erwin H - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2009

In this paper we examine the claim that natural resources invite civil conflict, and challenge the main stylized facts in this literature. We find that the conventional measure of resource dependence is endogenous with respect to conflict, and that instrumenting for dependence implies that it is...

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Voracious Transformation of a Common Natural Resource into Productive Capital

Ploeg, Frederick van der - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2008

We analyze a power struggle about the control of natural resources where competing factions in society have a private stock of financial assets and a common stock of natural resources with inadequately defined private property rights. We solve a dynamic common-pool problem and obtain political...

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Rapacious Resource Depletion and Excessive Investment Fuelled by Rival Factions and Insecure Property Rights

Ploeg, Frederick van der - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2009

For a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of naturalexhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We allow property rights to improve as the country...

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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets:Panel Data Evidence on the Voracity Effect

Arezki, Rabah; Bruckner, Markus - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2012

This paper examines the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...

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Institutions and the Location of Oil Exploration

Cust, James; Harding, Torfinn - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2014

We provide evidence that institutions strongly influence where investors drill for oil and gas. At national borders, investors drill on the side with better institutionalquality two times out of three. To identify the effect of institutions, we utilise a global data set on the location of...

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Long-run Effects of Resource Rents in Developing Countries: The role of public investment management

Woldeyes, Firew B - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2013

The paper studies the long-run effects of shocks to resource rents on the economy using a structural vector error correction model for 37 developing countries. First, the long-run relations involving resource rents and the economy differ for resource importers and exporters. Second, there is an...

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Factor Accumulation and the Determinants of TFP in the GCC

Espinoza, Raphael - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2012

GDP growth in the GCC has been considerably higher than in advanced economies or other oil exporters since 1986. The paper shows that the GCC countries have swiftly accumulated large stocks of physical capital but the population increase and the shift away from oil meant that capital intensity...

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Coercion, Conflict, and Commodities

Cilliers, Jacobus - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2013

Why do armed groups sometimes coerce and sometimes not? Civilian suffering due to coercion in conflicts is larger; yet, anecdotal evidence suggests that armed groups often choose not to coerce. To explain the observed variation in coercive practices, I combine a two-sector specific-factos trade...

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