Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010
resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war. Allegedly, resource rents attract rent seekers, which … handing out special favors. The present paper attempts to bridge the gap between the rent-seeking view of resource rents as a … employment. The chance of conflict and rent dissipation in our model is highest for intermediate levels of resource rents, where …