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Managing the Exploitation of Natural Assets: Lessons for low income countries

Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2008

This paper provides an analytic review of the upstream aspects of the exploitation of natural resources: the assignment of ownership rights, taxation, the discovery process, extraction, renewability, and clean-up. It sets these issues within the principal-agent framework. It proposes that the...

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Managing Resource Revenues: Lessons for low income countries

Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2008

This paper explores the choices faced by developing country governments that have received substantial revenues from natural resources. The economic principles underlying the choices between consumption, domestic investment, and the accumulation of foreign assets are analysed. The priority...

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Economic growth and its impact on environment: A panel data analysis

Asici, Ahmet Atıl - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper aims to explore the relationship between the economic growth and the pressure on nature from the environmental sustainability perspective. We measure pressure on nature as the sum of energy, mineral, net forest depletions and carbon dioxide damage, all measured in US dollars. The data...

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Battle for Climate and Scarcity Rents: Beyond the Linear-Quadratic Case

Kagan, Mark; van der Ploeg, Frederick; Withagen, Cees A. - 2014

The nature of oil demand influences the oil extraction rate and hence has implications for both the timing of oil exhaustion and optimal climate policy. We analyse what role oil demand specification plays in strategic interactions b between an oil-importing country producing final goods and...

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Battle for Climate and Scarcity Rents: Beyond the linear-quadratic case

Kagan, Mark; Ploeg, Frederick van der; Withagen, Cees - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2015

Industria imports oil, produces final goods and wishes to mitigate global warming. Oilrabia exports oil and buys final goods from the other country. Industria uses the carbon tax to impose an import tariff on oil and steal some of Oilrabia’s scarcity rent. Conversely, Oilrabia has monopoly...

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Battle for Climate and Scarcity Rents: Beyond the Linear-Quadratic Case

Kagan, Mark; Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Withagen, Cees A. - CESifo - 2014

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On comprehensive wealth, institutional quality and sustainable development-quantifying the effect of institutional quality on sustainability

Stoever, Jana - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 3, pp. 794-801

that compared to the saving of physical capital, the saving of non-physical capital is influenced more strongly by …

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Sustainable growth: Compatibility between criterion and the initial state

Bazhanov, Andrei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

There is a large body of research devoted to our understanding of sustainable growth in resource based economies. Some of this research is inapplicable to the real economy. This is a result of inconsistency between the commonly used criteria and the initial state of the real economy. The...

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Green accounting, institutional quality and investment decisions : macroeconomic implications from an analysis of the oil and mining sector

Stöver, Jana - 2016

physical and natural capital. Since these two types of capital are used jointly in the industry's production process, the firms … face a dual investment decision, whereby they have to decide on the investment into both types of capital simultaneously … then shown that the form of capital aggregation in national accounting can lead to an underestimation of the effect of …

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Guidelines for Exploiting Natural Resource Wealth

Ploeg, Rick Van der - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

windfall until the country is ready to absorb extra spending on domestic investment. Capital scarcity implies that a positive …

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