We show that the incorporation of offshore entities increases when oil and gas exploration licences are awarded. We … oil licences to construct a new data set covering 119 countries over the period 1990-2014. We consider the incorporation … association is stronger when the price of oil increases. Our work informs the fight against corruption, proposing greater …

evolution of the democracy level of countries affected by giant oil discoveries with the weighted democracy level of countries … democracy in the pre-event period are not affected by the peak of oil discoveries. These results support heterogeneity and non … of oil discovery from the 1970s, we find that the exogenous variation in oil endowment does not have the same effect on …

natural resources, produced in different regions (oil, coffee, bananas, emeralds, and flowers). This paper suggests that …

often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil rentier Angola. This paper … partly through high rent capture and incipient socialization of massive oil rents. We conclude by discussing the likely …

find evidence of a mitigating role for 'constraints on executive power' and 'democracy'. Other covariates found to be …

towards democracy. Variation across post-communist countries in the degree of democracy twenty years after the start of …