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Natural Resource Dependency and Quality of Government
Anthonsen, Mette; Löfgren, Åsa; Nilsson, Klas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
effects of natural resources. It consists of two parts. First, it theorizes the role of fiscal dependency of oil and gas rents … impartiality. Second, it finds significant, negative effects of oil and gas rent dependency on all three dimensions of quality in a …
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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...
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Transformación del sistema de transporte por el impacto de techo del petróleo
Segura, Roberto Bermejo Gómez de - In: EKONOMIAZ 73 (2010) 01, pp. 216-249
The peak oil represents the most important changing influence to which civilization faces. The transport division is … crisis. This analysis allows us to extrapolate the trends derived from a scenario of successive cycles of oil bulls and …
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Do giant oilfield discoveries fuel internal armed conflicts?
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - In: Journal of Development Economics 110 (2014) C, pp. 139-157
discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50%. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have a dark …
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Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts?
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351523
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Giant oilfields and civil conflict
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549058
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Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts?
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2012
discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551660
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Do giant oilfield discoveries fuel internal armed conflicts?
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745904
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Mineral Resources and Conflicts in DRC: A Case of Ecological Fallacy
De Luca, Giacomo; Maystadt, Jean-François; Sekeris, … - Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de … - 2012
We estimate the impact of geo-located mining concessions on the number of conflict events recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1997 and 2007. Instrumenting the variable of interest with historical concessions interacted with changes in international prices of minerals, we...
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Can more be less? An experimental test of the resource curse
Al-Ubaydli, Omar; McCabe, Kevin; Twieg, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Several scholars have argued that abundant natural resources can be harmful to economic performance under bad institutions and helpful when institutions are good. These arguments have either been theoretical or based on naturally-occurring variation in natural resource wealth. We test this...
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