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Dreher, Axel; Kreibaum, Merle - 2015

This article investigates the effect of natural resources on whether ethno-political groups choose to pursue their goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that whether or not the extraction of fossil fuels sparks...

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Oil wealth and property rights

De Soysa, Indra; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020

We empirically examine the impact of oil wealth on property rights protection for a sample of 156 countries between 1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to different instrumental-variable approaches and...

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A Lipsetian theory of democratization : development, education, inequality, and resources

Boucekkine, Raouf; Piacquadio, Paolo G.; Prieur, Fabien - 2016

The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative … relationship between inequality and democratization. Furthermore, we obtain new insights on the resources-curse hypothesis and on …

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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...

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Optimal tariffs on exhaustible resources : the case of a quantity setting cartel

Fujiwara, Kenji; Long, Ngo Van - 2012

We formulate a dynamic game model of trade in an exhaustible resource with a quantity-setting cartel. We compute the feedback Nash equilibrium and two Stackelberg equilibria under two different leadership scenarios: leadership by the strategic importing country, and leadership by the exporting...

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What drives the global land rush?

Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus W.; 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...

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Natural-resource rents and internal conflicts : can decentralization lift the curse?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Lessmann, Christian; … - 2013 - This version: March 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...

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War and natural resource exploitation

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rohner, Dominic - 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...

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Conservation contracts and political regimes

Harstad, Bård; Mideksa, Torben - 2015

Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal conservation contract, (iii) when the donor prefers contracting with central rather than local governments, and (iv) how the donor's presence may induce institutional change. Deforestation...

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This mine is mine! : how minerals fuel conflicts in Africa

Berman, Nicolas; Couttenier, Mathieu; Rohner, Dominic; … - 2015 - First version: July 2014, This version: June 16, 2015

We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a positive impact of mining on conict at the local level....

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