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73: On Equilibrium in Resource Markets with Scale Economies and Stochastic Prices

Charles Mason

72: What Drives the Global Land Rush?

Rabah Arezki, Klaus Deininger and Harris Selod

71: Trade, Transboundary Pollution, and Foreign Lobbying

Victoria I Umansyaya and Edward Barbier

70: The Relative Volatility of Commodity Prices: A Re-Appraisal

Rabah Arezki, Daniel Lederman and Hongyan Zhao

69: Land Deals in Africa: pioneers and speculators

Paul Collier and Anthony Venables

68: Global Warming and Endogenous Technological Change: Revisiting the Green Paradox

Luca Spinesi

67: Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts?

Yu-Hsiang Lei and Guy Michaels

66: Bottlenecks in Ramping Up Public Investment

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

65: Public Capital in Resource Rich Economies: Is there a Curse?

Paul Collier and Sambit Bhattacharyya

64: Optimal Oil Extraction as a Multiple Real Option

Nikolay Aleksandrov and Raphael Espinoza

63: Inflation Persistence and Exchange Rate Regime: Implications for dynamic adjustment to shocks in a small open economy

Karlygash Kuralbayeva

62: Depletion and Development: Natural resounce supply with endogenous field opening

Anthony Venables

61: Income and Democracy: Lipset’s Law Inverted

Ghada Fayad and Robert Bates

60: Optimal fiscal policy and different degrees of access to international capital markets

Karlygash Kuralbayeva

59: Migrants’ Remittances and Financial Development: Macro- and Micro-level Evidence of a Perverse Relationship

Richard P C Brown, Fabrizio Carmignani and Ghada Fayad

58: War Signals: A Theory of Trade, Trust and Conflict

Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig and Fabrizio Zilibotti

57: Remittances: Dutch disease or export-led growth?

Ghada Fayad

56: Too Much Coal, Too Little Oil

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Cees Withagen

55: Growth, Renewables and the Optimal Carbon Tax

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Cees Withagen

54: Windfalls, Structural Transformation and Specialization

Karlygash Kuralbayeva

53: Do Natural Resource Revenues Hinder Financial Development? The Role of Political Institutions

Sambit Bhattacharyya and Roland Hodler

52: Absorbing a Windfall of Foreign Exchange: Dutch disease dymanics

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Anthony Venables

51: Do Natural Resources Attract Non-Resource FDI?

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Steven Poelhekke

50: Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War

Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner

49: PRECAUTIONARY CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES AND OPTIMAL REDISTRIBUTION

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Bas Jacobs

48: Structural Transformation and the Oil Price

Radoslaw Stefanski

47: On the Mechanics of the "Green Solow Model"

Radoslaw Stefanski

46: Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Natural Resources: Top Incomes in South Africa 1903-2005

Facundo Alvaredo and Anthony Atkinson

45: Strategic Mass Killings

Joan Esteban, Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner

44: Resource Rents: When to spend and how to save

Anthony Venables

43: Ricardian Curse of the Resource Boom: the Case of Kazakhstan 2000-2008

Akram Esanov and Karlygash Kuralbayeva

42: War and Natural Resource Exploitation

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Dominic Rohner

41: Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation

Sambit Bhattacharyya and Jeffrey G Williamson

40: Managing Natural Resources Revenue: The Case of Chile

Rodrigo Fuentes

39: The Implications of Heterogeneous Resource Intesities on Technical Change and Growth

Karen Pittel and Lucas Bretschger

38: GOVERNANCE AND OIL REVENUES IN CAMEROON

Bernard Gauthier and Albert Zeufack

37: Population Growth and Natural Resource Scarcity: long-run development under seemingly unfavourable conditions

Lucas Bretschger

36: Harnessing Resource Revenues for Prosperity in Zambia

Christopher Adam and Anthony Simpasa

35: IS THERE REALLY A GREEN PARADOX?

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Cees Withagen

34: Energy Prices, Growth, and the Channels in Between: Theory and Evidence

Lucas Bretschger

33: The Pungent Smell of “Red Herrings’: Subsoil assets, rents, volatility and the resource curse

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Steven Poelhekke

32: International Rules for Trade in Natural Resources

Anthony Venables and Paul Collier

31: Natural Resources and State Fragility

Anthony Venables and Paul Collier

30: The Effect of Oil and Diamonds on Democracy: is there really a resource curse?

Charlotte Werger

29: Oil and Growth in Transition Countries

Christa Brunnschweiler

28: Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil

Francesco Caselli and Guy Michaels

27: Official Forecasts and Management of Oil Windfalls

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Torfinn Harding

26: Geography and Trade Structure: Implications for Volatility

Adeel Malik

25: Learning and Price Volatility in Duopoly Models of Resource Depletion

Martin Ellison and Andrew Scott

24: The Volatility Curse and Financial Development: Revisiting the paradox of plenty

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Steven Poelhekke

23: Natural Resources & Income Inequality: The Role of Ethnic Divisions

Ruikang Marcus Fum and Roland Hodler

22: Economic Integration in Remote Resource-Rich Regions

Anthony Venables

21: Aggressive Oil Extraction and Precautionary Saving: Coping with Volatility

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

20: Natural Resources, Democracy and Corruption

Sambit Bhattacharyya and Roland Hodler

19: Implementable Fiscal Rules for an Oil-Exporting Small Open Economy Facing Depletion

Anamaría Pieschacón

18: Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Resource Abundance, Dependenc and the Onset of Civil Wars

Christa Brunnschweiler and Erwin Bulte

17: Fractionalization and Fighting over Natural Resources: Ethnicity, Language, Religion, and the Onset of Civil War

Christa Brunnschweiler and Erwin Bulte

16: Rapacious Resource Depletion, Excessive Investment and Insecure Property Rights: A Puzzle

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

15: Managing Resource Revenues in Developing

Paul Collier, Anthony Venables, Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and A. Spence

14: Commodity Prices and Growth: An empirical investigation

Paul Collier and Benedikt Goderis

13: Testing the Neocon Agenda: Democracy in Resource-Ricj Societies

Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler

12: Managing Resource Revenues: lessons for low income countries

Anthony Venables and Paul Collier

11: Managing the Exploitation of Natural Assets: lessons for low income countries

Anthony Venables and Paul Collier

10: Why Do Many Resource-Rich Countries Have Negative Genuine Saving? Anticipation of better times for rapacious rent seeking

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

9: Harnessing Windfall Revenues: Optimal Policies for resrouce-ruch developing countries

Anthony Venables and Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

8: Natural Resource Booms and Inequality: Theory and Evidence

Benedikt Goderis and Samuel Malone

7: Structural Policies for Shock-Prone Commodity Exporters

Paul Collier and Benedikt Goderis

6: Review of Development Economics: Does Aid Mitigate External Shocks?

Paul Collier and Benedikt Goderis

5: Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing?

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

4: Illusory Revenues: Import tariffs in Resource-Rich and Aid-Rich Economies

Anthony Venables and Paul Collier

3: Volatility and the Natural Resource Curse

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Steven Poelhekke

2: Voracious Transformation of a Common Natural Resource into Productive Capital

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

1: Do Natural Resources Depress Income Per Capita?

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Rabah Arezki