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Can oil-rich countries encourage entrepreneurship? 'yes', 'no' but not 'perhaps'

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2014

.e., marginalized entrepreneurship activities. Our panel data analysis of 65 countries from 2004 to 2011 shows a negative and … statistically significant association between oil rents dependency and entrepreneurship indicator. This finding is robust to control … of other major drivers of entrepreneurship, unobservable country and time fixed effects and a different measurement of …

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Natural resource rents, autocracy and economic freedom

Endrikat, Morten - 2021

This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the effect of natural resource rents on the process of economic liberalization and a potential moderating effect of the level of democracy. A simple political-economic model is developed in which the government in an autocratic country faces...

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How Long Will Resources Last?

Gronwald, Marc; Lippelt, Jana - In: CESifo Forum 10 (2009) 4, pp. 59-61

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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - 1999

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country's economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U...

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Conflict and Production: An Application to Natural Resources

Wick, Katharina - 2007

We present a Stackelberg model of conflict, in which contestants have limited endowments to be put in two separate sectors, thus incorporating salient features of many conflicts. The model is applied to the case of conflict over natural resources. Consistent with amounting empirical evidence...

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The resource curse revisited: Governance and natural resources

Busse, Matthias; Gröning, Steffen - 2011

The paper analyses the impact of natural resource abundance on selected governance indicators. In contrast to earlier studies that are mainly confined to cross-sectional analysis, we use a panel data set with a large number of countries and an extended period of time. Moreover, we employ an...

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Oil and Growth in Transition Countries

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2009

This paper examines the impact of oil on economic growth in transition economies of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We use oil production and reserves data in a series of panel estimations to show that oil has had strong and robust positive growth effects...

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Is the oil price a determinant of employment in oil intensive romanian communities?

Horobet, Alexandra; Bulai, Vlad-Cosmin - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 12 (2019) 3, pp. 7-13

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the resilience of oil intensive Romanian communities to oil price fluctuations. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology employed is based on identifying the communities with the most extensive oil extraction activities using GIS (Geographic...

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Pareto optimality in the extraction of fossil fuels and the greenhouse effect: a note

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2007

This note generalizes the Solow-Stiglitz efficiency condition for natural resources to the problem of fossil fuel extraction with a greenhouse effect. The generalized optimality condition suggests that the greenhouse effect implies overextraction in the sense of leaving future generations a...

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Rapacious resource depletion, excessive investment and insecure property rights

van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2010

For a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of natural exhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We allow property rights to improve as the country...

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