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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
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The influence of different production functions on modeling resource extraction and economic growth
Voosholz, Frauke - 2014 - Corrected Draft September 2014
In this paper we discuss the influence of using different production functions on modeling the resource extraction rates and economic growth. The focus is set on the modeling of the production sector, which requires either non-renewable resources, renewable resources or a combination of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402272
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Economic Growth and Property Rights on Natural Resources
Borissov, Kirill; Pakhnin, Mikhail - Department of Economics, European University at St. … - 2014
resources. The resource revenue is equally distributed among agents, who choose the resource extraction rate by voting. We … define an intertemporal voting equilibrium and show that it also converges to a balanced-growth equilibrium. The long …-run voting equilibrium extraction rate and the rate of growth are determined by the median discount factor. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228003
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Common and private property to exhaustible resources: theoretical implications for economic growth
Borissov, Kirill; Surkov, Alexander - Department of Economics, European University at St. … - 2010
owned and the resource extraction rate is chosen by voting. We show that if discount factors are given exogenously, the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794566
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Public versus Private Ownership of Exhaustible Resources in Models of Economic Growth with Heterogeneous Consumers
Borissov, Kirill; Surkov, Alexander - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2012
resources are public property and the resource extraction rate is chosen by voting. We show that the long-run rate of growth is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124113
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The Productivity of U.S. States Since 1880
McLean, Ian W.; Mitchener, Kris James - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 2001
This study identifies the determinants of interstate variation in labor productivity levels at twenty-year intervals between 1880 and 1980. Focusing on fundamental rather than proximate influences, we find that institutional characteristics, physical geography, and resource abundance can account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462867
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The influence of different production functions on modeling resource extraction and economic growth
Voosholz, Frauke - 2014
In this paper we discuss the influence of using different production functions on modeling the resource extraction rates and economic growth. The focus is set on the modeling of the production sector, which requires either non-renewable resources, renewable resources or a combination of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398464
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Understanding the Resource Impact Using Matching
Aliyev, Ilkin - 2011
We investigate the resource impact on economic growth using matching. Using a nonparametric minimum-distance matching method, we match the countries according to their observable characteristics, and estimate the relative growth rates of each matched pair. This way we are able to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117992
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The Natural Resource Curse and Fiscal Decentralization
Perez‐Sebastian, Fidel - 2015
Natural resource abundance is a blessing for some countries, but a curse for others. We show that differences across countries in the degree of fiscal decentralization can contribute to this divergent outcome. Using a large panel of countries, covering several decades and various fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038322
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Do Resource Windfalls Improve the Standard of Living in Sub-Saharan African Countries? : Evidence from a Panel of Countries
Lee, Munseob - 2015
We examine the impact of resource windfall on the standard of living both in the short-run and long-run, using a sample of 130 countries, 1963-2007. Then, we systematically investigate the effect of resource windfall on welfare in three different groups of countries: We find that in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022269