How do expropriations of foreign oil and gas assets affect the net inflow of FDI? We analyze political and legal developments which led to increased government control of natural resource extraction industries in South America in the early 2000s and discuss at which point in time foreign...

Scenarios of trade liberalization are studied in simulations of a static computable general equilibrium model of the Syrian economy. The standard model is modified to allow for government monopolies in selected sectors of the economy and for peculiarities of the Syrian multiple exchange rate...