This paper surveys the natural resource curse. We review the mechanisms through which
resource wealth might slow economic growth, and the empirical studies that test for an effect …

Since 2001, hundreds of academic studies have examined the “political resource curse,”
meaning the claim that natural resource wealth tends to adversely affect a country's …

The present study assesses the causality of geopolitical risk (GPR), oil prices (OPs) and
financial liquidity by means of wavelet analysis, which aims to investigate whether such …

We combine georeferenced data on mining extraction of 14 minerals with information on
conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5 o× 0.5 o for all of Africa between 1997 and 2010 …

This study reviews whether oil prices (OP) in Venezuela affect inflation (INF) in the presence
of geopolitical risk (GPR). The country is exceedingly dependent on oil results in geopolitical …

Energy systems are subject to strong and long-lived path dependence, owing to
technological, infrastructural, institutional and behavioural lock-ins. Yet, with the prospect of …

The cross-country empirical evidence for the natural resource curse is ample, but
unfortunately fraught with econometric difficulties. A recent wave of studies on measuring the …

The study explores the dynamic effects of geopolitical risks and economic policy
uncertainties on oil and natural gas prices in the US market's less volatile and highly volatile …

This article reviews the existing theoretical arguments and empirical findings linking
renewable and non-renewable natural resources to the onset, intensity, and duration of …

How do nationalistic media affect animosity between ethnic groups? We consider one of
Europe's deadliest conflicts since WWII, the Serbo-Croatian conflict. We show that, after a …