This paper analyses the development strategies followed by the governments of Argentina and Brazil since the election of left-oriented parties (2002 in Brazil and 2003 in Argentina), and focuses on the role the trade union movement has had on their policies and how it challenged their growth...

This paper develops a simple model that analyses the relationship between a country's oil endowment and the duration of its autocratic leader. The dictator uses the rents from oil extraction for both personal gain and to pay-off potential opposition and chooses an optimal level of oil...

Resource curse theory claims that resource abundance encourages violent conflict. A study of 37 oil-producing developing countries, however, reveals that oil states with very high levels of oil revenue are remarkably stable. An analysis of the ways in which governments spend oil revenues...

The purpose of this study is to broaden the discussion on corporate enviromental risk exposure by integrating an oil scarcity factor. This broader approach can be utilized as a means of instigating a discussion on carbon risks beyond output oriented adaption and mitigation strategies. Even...

Erdöl ist der mit Abstand wichtigste Primärenergieträger. Wie steht es um die langfristige Verfügbarkeit von Rohöl? Wie werden sich Angebot und Nachfrage entwickeln? Bleibt die deutsche Rohölversorgung langfristig gesichert?

The paper focuses in the calculation of the oil capital value in a small open economy depending on oil rents. The Venezuelan case is used as an example. In valuing the oil capital, two issues are recalled and discussed: how should the exploration costs and the capital gains be treated? It is...

The impacts of the exploration and production of large oil and gas reserves in a national economy are controversial. Several countries have shown a lack of capacity to develop based on these resources, while others achieve success. One important part of this equation are the local content rules...

Nach dem Golfkrieg 1991 brach die Ölgewinnung des Irak aufgrund von Kriegsschäden drastisch ein; Ölexporte durch die UN wurden untersagt. Während 1989 noch 2,8 Mill. Barrel pro Tag (mbd) gefördert wurden, waren es 1991 nur noch 0,2 mbd. Ende 1996 wurde dem Irak erlaubt, in begrenztem Umfang...

Departing from Hotelling's assumption of fixed and known reserves, in this paper I develop an economic model of additions to proven reserves that explicitly incorporates the effects of expected resource price, cumulative reserves development, and technological progress on reserves additions. The...

Rohstoffvorkommen können den Wohlstand einer Volkswirtschaft begünstigen, wenn die Einnahmen aus dem Export der Bodenschätze als Grundlage einer breiten wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung dienen. Oftmals hat sich der vermeintliche Segen bedeutender Rohstoffbestände aber als Fluch für die...