Rapacious resource depletion, excessive investment and insecure property rights: a puzzle
For a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of natural exhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We allow property rights to improve as the country transforms...
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University of Oxford
2009
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