Die Analyse des Scheitern einer Revolution, die aus einem an Erdöl reichen Staat ein Armenhaus gemacht hat. Rezension: Mit dem vorliegenden Buch hat Bahrmann eine "Trilogie" zu den 3 grossen Revolutionen in Südamerika geschrieben: Kuba (2016), Nicaragua (2017) und jetzt Venezuela. Die...

We examine the response of the news-based Corruption Reflection Index (CRI) to positive shocks in oil revenues in Iran. Using annual data from 1962 to 2019, we employ the Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model and analyze impulse response functions. Our findings reveal a positive and significant...

Autocracies in developing countries are more likely to collapse during economic crises. Some influential works and popular media extend this argument to oil-rich autocracies, but cross-national empirical studies find little evidence to support this view. Yet, while the causes of their stability...