, such as oil, minerals, and forests, continue to attract significant investments whereas others, like natural gas, could be …

internal violence. This paper uses a novel dataset on oil and natural gas property rights covering 40 countries during the … hydrocarbon production and civil conflict onset – often found in previous studies – only applies to countries in which oil and gas …

analysis shows that the presence and location of oil are significant and quantitatively important predictors of inter …

natural resources, in particular on oil resources. The combination of multilateral aid and oil rents independence favour the …

Monetary policy can play an important role in managing oil discoveries. Ideally governments will use fiscal policy to … smooth consumption of oil income. In practice this often does not happen, as governments delay spending until oil revenues … how monetary policy should respond. The paper makes three contributions. The first is to show that an oil discovery causes …