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Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001

This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and … presents some new results. The principal reasons why resource-based production can inhibit economic growth over long periods … the labour force is inversely related to per capita growth across countries. None of this lies in the nature of things …

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Spurious weather effects

Lind, Jo Thori - 2015

Rainfall is a truly exogeneous variable and hence popular as an instrument for many outcomes. But by its very nature …, rainfall in nearby areas tends to be correlated. I show theoretically that if there are also spatial trends in outcomes of …

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Climate change, rice crops and violence : evidence from Indonesia

Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014

This paper adopts an instrumental variable approach to uncover the impact of variations in minimum temperature on emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops...

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Polarized education levels and civil war

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Jetter, Michael; … - 2016

This paper suggests that societies exhibiting a large degree of educational polarization among its populace are systematically more likely to slip into civil conflict and civil war. Intuitively, political preferences and beliefs of highly educated citizens are likely to differ fundamentally from...

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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development

Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 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...

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International commodity prices and civil war outbreak : new evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond

Ciccone, Antonio - 2018

A new dataset by Bazzi and Blattman (2014) allows examining the effects of international commodity prices on the risk of civil war outbreak with more comprehensive data. I find that international commodity price downturns sparked civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa. Another finding with the new...

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Dynamics and time scope of post war recovery required for compensating civil war economic losses

Nam, Chang-woon; Schumacher, Jan - 2013

economic, social and political system, leading to a more rapid post-war growth. Until now little research exists tackling …

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Global cycles : capital flows, commodities, and sovereign defaults, 1815-2015

Reinhart, Carmen M.; Reinhart, Vincent; Trebesch, Christoph - 2016 - This draft: January 13, 2016

Capital flow and commodity cycles have long been connected with economic crises. Sparse historical data, however, has made it difficult to connect their timing. We date turning points in global capital flows and commodity prices across two centuries and provide estimates from alternative data...

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Macro news and commodity returns

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Fabio; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2015

This paper adopts a VAR-GARCH approach to model the dynamic linkages between both the mean and the variance of macro news and commodity returns (Gold, Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Copper, Aluminium and Crude Oil) over the period 01/01/2001-26/09/2014. The chosen...

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Pegxit pressure : evidence from the classical gold standard

Mitchener, Kris; Pina, Gonçalo - 2016

We develop a simple model that highlights the costs and benefits of fixed exchange rates as they relate to trade, and show that negative export-price shocks reduce fiscal revenue and increase the likelihood of an expected currency devaluation. Using a new high-frequency data set on...

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