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Nature, power, and growth
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001
This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397924
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Resource windfalls, macroeconomic stability and growth : the role of political institutions
Arezki, Rabah; Hamilton, Kirk; Kazimov, Kazim - 2011
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388290
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The sustainability of empire in global perspective : the role of international trade patterns
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012
revolution and the sustainability of empire come to depend on the capacity of the rebel colony to access international markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570582
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Fiscal sustainability in the EU after the global crisis : is there any progress?
Wysocki, Maciej; Wójcik, Cezary - 2018
sustainability outcomes? We approach this question by looking at the evolution of fiscal sustainability in Poland, which is an … fiscal sustainability in Poland has significantly improved in the post-crisis period of 2009-2017: we detect both improvement … of the fiscal sustainability parameters and structural breaks in the fiscal outcomes after the crisis. Namely, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900847
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Sovereign risk dynamics in the EU : the time varying relevance of fiscal and external (im)balances
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Monteiro, Sofia - 2024
-step approach to assess the impact of fiscal and external sustainability on sovereign risk dynamics for a panel of 27 European … sustainability, through the cointegration between government revenues and expenditures, and of external sustainability, derived from …. Noticeably, we show that an improvement of both fiscal and external sustainability lead to a reduction in sovereign risk. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486806
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789237
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Modeling fluctuations in the global demand for commodities
Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2017
It is widely understood that the real price of globally traded commodities is determined by the forces of demand and supply. One of the main determinants of the real price of commodities is shifts in the demand for commodities associated with unexpected fluctuations in global real economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754229
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588047
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An equilibrium model of the market for Bitcoin mining
Prat, Julien; Walter, Benjamin - 2018
We propose a model which uses the Bitcoin/US dollar exchange rate to predict the computing power of the Bitcoin network. We show that free entry places an upper-bound on mining revenues and we devise a structural framework to measure its value. Calibrating the model's parameters allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789223
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Quantifying the impact of economic sanctions on international trade in the energy and mining sectors
Larch, Mario; Shikher, Serge; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2021
Capitalizing on the latest developments in the gravity literature, we utilize two new datasets on sanctions and trade 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428959