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Oil Wealth and Property Rights
de Soysa, Indra; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020
1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227659
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Oil Wealth and Property Rights
Soysa, Indra - 2020
1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832191
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Why does environmental policy in representative democracies tend to be inadequate? A preliminary public choice analysis
Kollmann, Andrea; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2010
, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for … sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based instruments have not been implemented satisfactorily in environmental policy yet … players' behavior is analyzed in order to show that their incentives for implementing market-based instruments in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276730
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Formal contracts, relational contracts, and the threat-point effect
Itoh, Hideshi; Morita, Hodaka - 2011
Can formal contracts help resolving the holdup problem? We address this important question by studying the holdup problem in repeated transactions between a seller and a buyer in which the seller can make relation-specific investments in each period. In contrast to previous findings, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277359
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280643
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Oil and Civil Conflict: On and Off (Shore)
Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Nordvik, Frode Martin; Tesei, Andrea - 2017
We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries, while they decrease this probability in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615901
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Mining for Peace
Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023
The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290117
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Insuring Peace: Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict
Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023
We provide novel evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate …, reducing conflicts over scarce resources in contested areas. This suggests that market-based solutions are a promising pathway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377398
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Insuring Peace : Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict
Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023
We provide novel evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate …, reducing conflicts over scarce resources in contested areas. This suggests that market-based solutions are a promising pathway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356486
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Mining for Peace
Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023
The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262694