. Drawing on theory from the corporate finance and behavioral economics literature, we also test to what extent news about …

This paper assess how priorities of the IMF's membership have evolved over the past two decades, by using text mining …

estimates the effect of copper price shocks on mining, manufacturing, and construction-each embodying a sector type. The … empirical findings are for positive spillovers from mining to the other two sectors. However, the estimated size of the … spillovers seems modest, which raises the question of the potential for mining to be better integrated with the rest of the …

Major mining commodity prices are inherently volatile and cyclical. High levels of investment in China have been a key …

share of the benefits. Using optimal control theory, this paper estimates that the optimal royalty tax in Mali is about 3 ….5 percent. By reducing the royalty rate from 6 percent to 3 percent, Mali’s mining code broadly ensures that the risk is shared … between the state and mining companies, provides sufficient incentives to attract new exploration, and is comparable to the …

for higher quality goods. We test the proposed theory using a highly disaggregated Argentinean firm-level wine export …