According to conventional wisdom, strategic natural resources like oil are harmful to international peace. Nonetheless … impact of oil on militarized interstate disputes on a monadic level of analysis, this paper shows that oil in fact influences … the conflict potential between countries. Results of logistic regressions suggest that a high absolute oil production is …

This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characterized by a low … level of violence, an outlier among the oil countries as a whole. It applies a newly elaborated 'context approach' that … a comparative-historical perspective. The findings demonstrate that oil, in interaction with fluctuating non …

drop in the price of oil and gas have both had an effect on the scope of these measures and reveal their limits. Moreover …

This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and … and political-institutional and socioeconomic weakness that existed even before the beginning of the 'oil era'. Oil has … oil theft helps to explain the perpetuation of the violent conflicts at a low level of intensity. …

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 …

sustainable development ever since 1946. This result is rather surprising since the discovery of oil and natural gas fields in …

internal violence. This paper uses a novel dataset on oil and natural gas property rights covering 40 countries during the … hydrocarbon production and civil conflict onset - often found in previous studies - only applies to countries in which oil and gas …

Canadian province of Alberta has on the price producers pay for the right to extract oil. We exploit a regression discontinuity … average for oil leases that are regulated and that the total net present value cost of the regulation exceeds $1.15 billion …