Contesting resources – rent seeking, conflict and the natural resource curse

By K. Wick, Erwin H. Bulte. 2006

112 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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In Building and Construction

1. E. Papyrakis
2. F. van der ploeg
3. Rabah Arezki
4. E. Gilberthorpe
5. Ragnar Torvik
6. E. Nillesen
7. Erwin H. Bulte
8. Tobias Böhmelt

In Demography

1. F. van der ploeg
2. E. Papyrakis
3. Rabah Arezki
4. Erwin H. Bulte
5. Ragnar Torvik
6. E. Nillesen
7. Tobias Böhmelt
8. T. Bernauer

In Economics and Econometrics

1. E. Papyrakis
2. F. van der ploeg
3. E. Gilberthorpe
4. Rabah Arezki
5. Erwin H. Bulte
6. Ragnar Torvik
7. Tobias Böhmelt
8. T. Bernauer

Citations in the corpus

• The extractive industries and development: The resource curse at the micro, meso and macro levels (2015, background): “Of course the extent of rent-seeking depends on other opportunity costs in the economy (e.g. the return from other economic activities) and the appropriability of the mineral rents (e.g. their geographic concentration, number of contestants, etc.; see Wick and Bulte, 2006; Dejardin, 2011).”
• Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned Into a Blessing? The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions (2007, background): “-4 -2 0 2 4 Logarithm Natural Capital over GNI (year 2000) Figure: Corruption and Natural Capital over GNI Data source: see La Porta et al. (1997) & Sachs and Warner (1997)”
• Natural Resources and Violent Conflict (2014, background): “This parameter may represent a measure of resource pointiness (as in Wick & Bulte 2006)2 or a measure of institutional quality that reflects the security of property rights (as in Butler & Gates 2012).”
• Challenges and Opportunities for Resource Rich Economies (2006, unknown): “6 Wick and Bulte (2005) show analytically the possibility of a non-monotonous relationship between resources and conflict intensity.”
• Do natural resources matter for interstate and intrastate armed conflict? (2014, background): “Resource abundance and dependence may also aggravate grievances leading to conflict if a particular resource is controlled by only one group (Wick & Bulte, 2006), or if citizens perceive the distribution of resource rents to be unfair (Østby, Nordas & Rød, 2009; Murshed & Gates, 2005; Humphreys,…”
• The Resource Curse - What Have We Learned from Two Decades of Intensive Research: Introduction to the Special Issue (2017, background): “Van der Ploeg and Poelhekke (2010) replicate the analysis by Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2008) by replacing their original proxy of resource abundance (a measure of per capita subsoil wealth, which van der Ploeg and Poelhekke”
• Why do some resource-abundant countries succeed while others do not? (2009, background): “Other resource curse models within the rent-seeking tradition includes among others Baland and Francois (2000), Hodler (2006), Mehlum et al. (2006) and Wick and Bulte (2006).”
• Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing? (2011, background): “Wick, Katharina, and Erwin H. Bulte.”