economies. The framework developed predicts a negative relationship between the degree of direct democracy and the size of the … quantitatively important; the results are robust and also depend on the interaction of direct democracy with other political …

-intensive, mining booms cause virtually no upward pressure on manufacturing earnings per worker, and both producers of traded and local … goods benefit from mining booms in terms of employment. In contrast, labour-intensive mining booms drive up local …

to study the impact of economic sanctions on international trade in the mining sector, which includes oil and natural gas …. We demonstrate that the gravity equation is well suited to model bilateral trade in mining and find that sanctions have … been effective in impeding mining trade. Our analysis reveals that complete trade sanctions have reduced bilateral mining …

curve in a long-run model of the Texas electricity market. We find that while Bitcoin mining can indeed increase renewable …

. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in … (planned and unplanned) mining projects in Sierra Leone. A crucial insight is that new mining projects do not necessarily …