pollution costs from fuel consumption, and allows endogenous determination of equilibrium quantities and prices for oil, corn … trade, particularly in the oil market. We also find that, conditional on the current fuel tax, an optimal ethanol mandate is …

state system as such. Countries benefitting from oil and gas rents have been more resilient, because of their potential to …, in general, of the Arab states system. In this context, national oil companies can increasingly be conceptualized not …

This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characterized by a low … level of violence, an outlier among the oil countries as a whole. It applies a newly elaborated 'context approach' that … a comparative-historical perspective. The findings demonstrate that oil, in interaction with fluctuating non …

This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and … and political-institutional and socioeconomic weakness that existed even before the beginning of the 'oil era'. Oil has … oil theft helps to explain the perpetuation of the violent conflicts at a low level of intensity. …

Recent spikes in oil prices have thrown light on how economic activity in emerging markets may be impacted by oil price … shocks. This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the effect of oil price shocks on emerging markets. It tests for the … existence of an asymmetrical relationship between oil prices and economic activity using a model developed by James Hamilton. It …