Do natural resource windfalls increase the risk of armed conflict within a country ?
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22 Do natural resource windfalls increase the risk of armed conflict within a country? Yu-Hsiang Lei and Guy Michaels investigate the impact of giant oilfield discoveries on the likelihood of civil conflict.
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CEP Discussion Paper No 1091 November 2011 Resource Windfalls , Political Regimes , and Political Stability Francesco Caselli and
We study theoretically and empirically whether natural resource windfalls affect political regimes. We document the following regularities. Natural resource windfalls have no effect on the political system when they occur in democracies. However, windfalls have significant political consequences in autocracies. In particular, when an autocratic country receives a positive shock to its flow of r...
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