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The Effects of Oil and Mineral Taxation on Non-commodity Fiscal Revenues
Perry, Guillermo; Bustos, Sebastián - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper shows, first, that non-commodity revenues are more volatile in oil- and mineral-rich countries and that … quality of institutions is associated with lower volatility. We investigate the channels through which oil and mineral revenue … volatility lead to non-commodity revenues volatility, and find that when oil and fiscal revenues increase (decrease), non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943711
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Global boom, local impacts: Mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007-2011
Zambrano, Omar; Robles, Marcos; Laos, Denisse - Inter-American Development Bank - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944203
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Corruption and the Curse: The Dictator’s Choice
Sarr, Mare; Swanson, Tim - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of a self-interested and unchecked ruler making decisions regarding the exploitation of a resource-rich country. This dictator makes the recursive choice between either investing domestically to live off the productivity of the country while facing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833900
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314151
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The natural resource curse and institutions in post-Soviet countries
Horváth, Roman; Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014
We examine the effect of natural resource exports on economic performance during the 1996-2011 period in the 15 independent countries that formerly comprised the Soviet Union. These countries were a largely homogeneous group with respect to social and institutional context; however, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340630
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Poverty, inequality, and the local natural resource curse
Loayza, Norman; Mier y Teran, Alfredo; Rigolini, Jamele - 2013
The extent to which local communities benefit from commodity booms has been subject to wide but inconclusive investigations. This paper draws from a new district-level database to investigate the local impact on socioeconomic outcomes of mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293203
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Corruption and the curse: The dictator's choice
Sarr, Mare; Swanson, Tim - 2013
We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of a self-interested and unchecked ruler making decisions regarding the exploitation of a resource-rich country. This dictator makes the recursive choice between either investing domestically to live off the productivity of the country while facing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294342
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Commodity prices, growth, and the natural resource curse: reconciling a conundrum
Collier, Paul; Goderis, Benedikt - 2007
Currently, evidence on the ‘resource curse’ yields a conundrum. While there is much crosssection evidence to support the curse hypothesis, time series analyses using vector autoregressive (VAR) models have found that commodity booms raise the growth of commodity exporters. This paper adopts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441488
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Commodity prices, growth, and the natural resource curse: Reconciling a conundrum
Collier, Paul; Goderis, Benedikt - 2007
Currently, evidence on the ‘resource curse’ yields a conundrum. While there is much crosssection evidence to support the curse hypothesis, time series analyses using vector autoregressive (VAR) models have found that commodity booms raise the growth ofcommodity exporters. This paper adopts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441493
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The Natural Resource Curse and Institutions in Post-Soviet Countries
Horvath, Roman; Zeynalov, Ayaz - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2014
We examine the effect of natural resource exports on economic performance during the 1996-2011 period in the 15 independent countries that formerly comprised the Soviet Union. These countries were a largely homogeneous group with respect to social and institutional context; however, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078537