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Resource wealth and entrepreneurship : a blessing or a curse?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2012
investigate the reasons behind such a significant lag of the resource-rich countries in entrepreneurship. Panel data for more than … 80 countries from 2004-2009 shows that higher dependence on resource rents reduces entrepreneurship activities. The … ; entrepreneurship ; panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534017
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Natural resource rents, autocracy and economic freedom
Endrikat, Morten - 2021
This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the effect of natural resource rents on the process of economic liberalization and a potential moderating effect of the level of democracy. A simple political-economic model is developed in which the government in an autocratic country faces...
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