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The empirical evidence suggests that the resource rich countries tend to have poor economic perfor- mance and higher rent seeking. In this paper, we develop a general equilibrium model explaining why natural resources turn out to be a curse in an economy divided into two classes: elite and...
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The evidence suggests that resource-rich countries tend to exhibit a relatively constant level of economic complexity, with limited progress. To investigate the underlying causes of this phenomenon, we employed a Pooled Mean Group (PMG) model using data from the top 20 resource-rich economies...
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The literature on taxation of rents from nonrenewable resources uses different theoretical assumptions and methods and a variety of empirical observations to arrive at widely diverging conclusions. Many studies use models and methods which disregard uncertainty, investigating distortionary...
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contrast with widespread assumptions, the empirical analysis shows that the correlation of the returns on oil and the stock … market is nonpositive and not invariant to changes in volatility. For crude oil during 1993-2008, these changes are … identified as three significant breaks. -- real options ; oil ; volatility ; CAPM ; comparative statics …
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