to determine the (perceived) risk in the face of which oil and mining firms determine their level of investment in … investigate the macroeconomic effects of institutional quality on the oil and mining sector separately from those on the rest of …

American countries: Brazil, Chile and Mexico, studying a small open economy in the context of an endogenous growth model where … labor taxes should be lower than actual taxes in Brazil and Chile. However, while sub-optimal taxes seem to imply lower long …