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Natural-Resource Rents and Internal Conflicts - Can Decentralization Lift the Curse?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Lessmann, Christian; … - CESifo - 2013
We study how natural-resource rents affect the risk of internal conflict within countries and how the federal structure of countries influences this relationship. Natural-resource abundance may induce excessive rent-seeking and thus increase the risk of internal conflict. Fiscal and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634079
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The Geography of Natural Resources, Ethnic Inequality and Development
Lessmann, Christian - 2017
We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962986
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The Political Economy of Opposition Groups : Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict
Jetter, Michael - 2018
This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930080
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Natural-Resource Rents and Internal Conflicts - Can Decentralization Lift the Curse?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Lessmann, Christian; … - 2021
We study how natural-resource rents affect the risk of internal conflict within countries and how the federal structure of countries influences this relationship. Natural-resource abundance may induce excessive rent-seeking and thus increase the risk of internal conflict. Fiscal and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315802
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What Drives the Global Land Rush?
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
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/10013092012
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Oil and Civil Conflict : On and Off (Shore)
Andersen, Jørgen Juel - 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 … opposite effects can be explained by a fighting capacity mechanism, whereby the government can use offshore oil income to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960998
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What Drives the Global Land Rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris - CESifo - 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/10009368564
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Competition for Natural Resources and the Hold-Up Problem
Hefeker, Carsten - 2016
We study the role of competition for the hold-up problem in foreign direct investment in resource-based industries. The host country government is not only unable to commit not to expropriate investment ex post, but is also unable to commit to the provision of local resources. In the case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979104
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War and Natural Resource Exploitation
van der Ploeg, Rick; Rohner, Dominic - 2021
Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Controversies and contradictions in the stylized facts persist because resource extraction is treated as exogenous while in reality fighting affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316134
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War and Natural Resource Exploitation
Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Rohner, Dominic - CESifo - 2010
Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Controversies and contradictions in the stylized facts persist because resource extraction is treated as exogenous while in reality fighting affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727286