Focusing on capital flight of the worst kind for developing countries-stolen public assets-we develop a model which shows that both the threat of losing elective office and its complement, the threat of delayed detection, do not affect the choice of whether to plunder or not. Rather they...

Within the framework of Markowitz-Tobin portfolio theory, we empirically investigate potential benefits to a US investor from diversifying into equity markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. We infer, based on the state of these economies for the period studied, that potential gains accrue to a US...