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Oil wealth and property rights
De Soysa, Indra; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020
We empirically examine the impact of oil wealth on property rights protection for a sample of 156 countries between … 1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to … different instrumental-variable approaches and operationalizations of oil wealth and economic institutions. We argue that oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012220565
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Oil Wealth and Property Rights
Soysa, Indra - 2020
We empirically examine the impact of oil wealth on property rights protection for a sample of 156 countries between … 1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to … different instrumental-variable approaches and operationalizations of oil wealth and economic institutions. We argue that oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832191
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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249737
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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276040
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International partnerships, foreign control and income levels : theory and evidence
Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Valente, Simone - 2011
We analyze the effects of different regimes of control rights over critical resources on the total domestic income of open economies. We consider home control, foreign control, and international partnerships in a theoretical model where contracts are incomplete, resource exploitation requires...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009553288
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Can common ownership prevent the tragedy of the commons? : an experimental investigation
Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin; Willinger, Marc - 2019
We study experimentally a two-stage common pool resource game. In the first stage, selected members of the group determine the level of protection for the resource. The protected fraction of the resource is equally shared among group members. In the second stage, the unprotected fraction of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289137
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Democracy and institutional quality : theory and evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2019
We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracy on institutional quality is increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236426
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The impact of fuel ownership on intrastate violence
Wegenast, Tim - 2013
The impact of natural resources on intrastate violence has been increasingly analyzed in the peace and conflict literature. Surprisingly, little quantitative evidence has been gathered on the effects of the resource-ownership structure on internal violence. This paper uses a novel dataset on oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009745318
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Natural resource curse and its causation channels in Africa
Mulwa, Richard M. - In: African journal of economic and sustainable development 6 (2017) 4, pp. 244-261
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993458
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Myanmar : cross-cutting governance challenges
Hendrix, Cullen; Noland, Marcus - 2015
Since 2010, Myanmar has been in the midst of a multifaceted transition, involving economic reforms, the resolution of multiple long-standing civil conflicts, and a nascent transition to democratic rule. These transitions are coinciding with a resource-led economic boom. The paper assesses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519523