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Cost-reducing R&D in the presence of an appropriation alternative : an application to the natural resource curse

Martin Puzon, Klarizze Anne - 2013 - This version: January 2013

This study proposes a new mechanism for the resource curse: crowding-out of innovation due to the existence of an option to engage in conflict. Using a game theoretical framework, it is argued that an increase in the amount of natural resources (in the informal sector here conflict for a...

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Global boom, local impacts : mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007 - 2011

Zambrano, Omar; Robles, Marcos; Laos, Denisse - 2014

The relationship between the abundance of natural resources and socio-economic performance has been a main object of study in the economic development field since Adam Smith. Dominated by the verification of the so called curse of natural resource, the mainstream literature on the topic has been...

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Clean or "dirty" energy : evidence on a renewable energy resource curse

Gennaioli, Caterina; Tavoni, Massimo - 2011

potential scope for rent seeking and corruption. The insights of a model of political influence by interest groups are tested … weak institutions, and are thus more susceptible to the private exploitation of public incentives. -- Corruption ; Natural …

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The social contract in the MENA region and the energy sector reforms

Brzuszkiewicz, Sara - 2017

During the last few years and because of the low oil prices in particular, the increasing awareness of the unsustainability of subsidized systems led several MENA countries to take steps to lower subsidies, which have been part of the social contract for decades, especially as far as the energy...

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Natural resource windfalls in nonproducing areas

Ome, Alejandro; Pérez, Javier - 2022

We study the impact of natural resource royalties on educational outcomes in Colombia. We analyze a reform enacted in 2012 that made the distribution of these royalties more equitable. Before the reform, most royalties were assigned to the regions where the natural resources were exploited; with...

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Corruption and the curse : the dictator's choice

Sarr, Mare; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2013

corrupt economies in resource-rich countries. An empirical analysis of available corruption indices suggests that instability …-led looting provides a more fundamental explanation of perceived corruption than do various social and cultural indicators or the … economic theory of internal political competition. -- Corruption ; Dictatorship ; Lending and Indebtedness ; Looting ; Natural …

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Analysis of public subsidies to the solar energy sector : corruption and the role of institutions

Moliterni, Fabio - 2017

This study investigates the connection between rent-seeking behaviour, corruption activity and quality of institutions … seems to have generated a growth of corruption activity, arisen from the opportunity of rent extraction. In particular … concentrated and administrative procedures are more complicated. To determine the causal effect of the subsidies on corruption, the …

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The influence of economic growth, population, and fossil fuel scarcity on energy investments

De Cian, Enrica; Sferra, Fabio; Tavoni, Massimo - 2013

This paper examines the dynamics of energy investments and clean energy Research and Development (R&D) using a scenario-based modeling approach. Starting from the global scenarios proposed in the RoSE model ensemble experiment, we analyze the dynamics of investments under different assumptions...

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On the mechanism of international technology diffusion for energy productivity growth

Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014

International diffusion of advanced environment and energy-related technologies has received much attention in recent environmental economics studies. As a much needed complement to the "black box" complex numerical modelling, this paper contributes to developing a simple, intuitive analytical...

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Impact of revised CO2 growth projections for China on global stabilization goals

Blanford, Geoffrey J.; Richels, Richard G.; Rutherford, … - 2008

Recent growth in carbon dioxide emissions from China's energy sector has exceeded expectations. In a major US government study of future emissions released in 2007 (1), participating models appear to have substantially underestimated the near-term rate of increase in China's emissions. We...

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