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Rapacious Resource Depletion, Excessive Investment and Insecure Property Rights

van der Ploeg, Rick - 2013

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 transforms natural resources into capital. The ensuing power struggle about … result, the country substitutes away from resources to capital too rapidly and invests more than predicted by the Hartwick …

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Battle for Climate and Scarcity Rents: Beyond the Linear-Quadratic Case

Kagan, Mark; Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Withagen, Cees A. - CESifo - 2014

The nature of oil demand influences the oil extraction rate and hence has implications for both the timing of oil exhaustion and optimal climate policy. We analyse what role oil demand specification plays in strategic interactions b between an oil-importing country producing final goods and...

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Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing?

Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2010

Are natural resources a “curse” or a “blessing”? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a...

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Follow the Money : Does the Financial Sector Intermediate Natural Resource Windfalls?

Beck, Thorsten - 2017

The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...

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Unilateral Climate Policy, Asymmetric Backstop Adoption, and Carbon Leakage in a Two-Region Hotelling Model

van der Werf, Edwin - 2015

We study backstop adoption and carbon dioxide emission paths in a two-region model with unilateral climate policy and non-renewable resource consumption. The regions have an equal endowment of the internationally tradable resource and a backstop technology. We first study the case of a...

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The Green Paradox : A Supply-Side View of the Climate Problem

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2015

Why have policies aimed at reducing the demand for carbon not succeeded in slowing down global carbon extraction and CO2 emissions, and why have carbon prices failed to increase over the last three decades? This comment argues that this is because of the Green Paradox, i.e. – (the anticipation...

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