Resource windfalls and public debt: the role of political myopia

We identify an adverse consequence of natural resource windfalls, which is partic-ularly detrimental in advanced democracies. We construct a political economy modelwith endogenous public debt under exogenous resource windfall shocks, in which po-litical myopia results from reelection prospects. Reel...

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Main Authors: Raveh, O, Tsur, Y
Formato: Working paper
Publicado: University of Oxford 2018