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 …

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

impact of oil. On a sample of 31 countries during the 2000s oil price boom, we first assess which country and sector … characteristics are correlated with the effective tax on oil, i.e. the share of oil income collected by the government. Secondly, we … test whether oil revenue evicts traditional tax revenues. We propose a new methodology to address this question and we …