Natural Resources, Democracy and Corruption.

We study how natural resources can feed corruption and how this effect depends on the quality of the democratic institutions. Our game-theoretic model predicts that resource rents lead to an increase in corruption if the quality of the democratic institutions is relatively poor, but not otherwise. W...

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Main Authors: Bhattacharyya, S, Hodler, R
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: OxCarre 2009