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less than the marginal resource rents equals the expected capital gains on reserves of natural resources plus the expected … end up with lower sustainable consumption and are worse off, especially if seepage is strong, the number of rival groups …
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depletion are faster than demanded by the Hotelling rule. As a result, the country substitutes away from resources to capital so … that it saves and invests more than a homogenous society. The power struggle boosts output. Nevertheless, fractionalization …-pool externalities. Fractionalization induces, however, positive genuine saving as measured by the World Bank. …
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The political economy of resource rich countries is surveyed. The empirical evidence suggests that countries with a large share of primary exports in GNP have bad growth records and high inequality, especially if the quality of institutions and the rule of law are bad. The economic argument that...
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Oil exporters typically do not consider below-ground assets when allocating their sovereign wealth fund portfolios, and ignore above-ground assets when extracting oil. We present a unified framework for considering both. Subsoil oil should alter a fund’s portfolio through additional leverage...
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This paper shows that proximity to major international financial centers seems to reduce business cycle volatility. In particular, we show that countries that are further from major locations of international financial activity systematically experience more volatile growth rates in both output...
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Carbon dioxide emissions may cause global warming. But own emissions have negligible effects for a small nation, which may thus regard carbon taxes as distortionary. Such taxes may have other effects, however. When research and development (R&D) has positive external effects, carbon taxes may...
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expressions for this price increase. Our calibration leads to a price increase of 40% if capital and labor are allowed to move to …
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We estimate an aggregate production function with constant elasticity of substitution between energy and a capital …-price shocks in the 1970s and has a negative medium-run correlation with capital/labor-saving technical change. Our findings are … suggestive of a model of directed technical change, with low short-run substitutability between energy and capital/labor but …
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colossal relative to its intergenerational fund. Only with capital scarcity, part of the windfall should be used for investing …
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This paper diagnoses the symptoms of the Dutch disease in a two-sector stochastic endogenous growth model. A productive, low skill-intensive primary sector causes the currency to appreciate in real terms, thus hampering the development of a high skill-intensive secondary sector and thereby...
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