Evidence for a presource curse? Oil discoveries, elevated expectations, and growth disappointments
Oil discoveries can constitute a major positive and exogenous shock to economic activity, but the resource curse hypothesis would suggest they might also be detrimental to growth over the long run. This paper utilizes a new methodology for estimating growth underperformance to examine the extent to...
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University of Oxford
2017
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