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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?
Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017
This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754212
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Natural-Resource Rents and Internal Conflicts - Can Decentralization Lift the Curse?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Lessmann, Christian; … - 2013
We study how natural-resource rents affect the risk of internal conflict within countries and how the federal structure of countries influences this relationship. Natural-resource abundance may induce excessive rent-seeking and thus increase the risk of internal conflict. Fiscal and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292699
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Foreign agents? Natural resources & the political economy of civil society
Breyel, Corinna; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2016
of a negative oil price shock, regime change becomes likely, whereas a positive oil shock increases the extractive … capacity of the dictator. When a negative oil price shock occurs, the persecution of failed revolutionaries can prevent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536278
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Do Economic and Political Institutions Mitigate the Risk of Natural Resource Conflicts?
O'Reilly, Colin - 2015
identification strategy to test these models. However, Lei and Michaels (2014) find that exogenous discoveries of “giant” oil fields … of the oil discovery. Results indicate that for conflicts over control of territory, strong economic and political … institutions reduce the likelihood of conflict in the wake of the discovery of oil. This empirical finding is consistent with basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027193
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Natural-Resource Rents and Internal Conflicts - Can Decentralization Lift the Curse?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Lessmann, Christian; … - CESifo - 2013
We study how natural-resource rents affect the risk of internal conflict within countries and how the federal structure of countries influences this relationship. Natural-resource abundance may induce excessive rent-seeking and thus increase the risk of internal conflict. Fiscal and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634079
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Nuclear power, democracy, development, and nuclear warheads: Determinants for introducing nuclear power
Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne; von Hirschhausen, Christian R. - 2019
This paper analyzes the nature of democratic development in a nation on the process of introducing nuclear power over the period 1960 - 2017 for an unbalanced panel of 171 countries. Given the involved political process of introducing nuclear power and its political importance, as well as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038143
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Nuclear Power, Democracy, Development, and Nuclear Warheads : Determinants for Introducing Nuclear Power
Sorge, Lars - 2019
This paper analyzes the nature of democratic development in a nation on the process of introducing nuclear power over the period 1960 - 2017 for an unbalanced panel of 171 countries. Given the involved political process of introducing nuclear power and its political importance, as well as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866154
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Papua New Guinea and the natural resource curse
Avalos, Nayda; Gonzales Stuva, Veronica; Heal, Adam; … - 2013
Several empirical studies have found that when exports are concentrated in natural resources countries experience slower rates of economic growth. Various potential channels for this relationship have been identified including Dutch disease, volatility in the terms of trade, and impacts on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009782123
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Commodity shocks, factor intensity and conflicts in Africa
Gantier Mita, Marcelo - 2020
Natural resources are often related to conflicts. The Dal B'o & Dal B'o (2011) theory states that income shocks affect capital- and labor-intensive sectors differently. Using sub-national cells covering the African continent for 1997-2010, I find that conflicts react differently to positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318667
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Transformación del sistema de transporte por el impacto de techo del petróleo
Segura, Roberto Bermejo Gómez de - In: EKONOMIAZ 73 (2010) 01, pp. 216-249
The peak oil represents the most important changing influence to which civilization faces. The transport division is … crisis. This analysis allows us to extrapolate the trends derived from a scenario of successive cycles of oil bulls and …
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