Natural resources, rent seeking and welfare
By Ragnar Torvik. 2002
868 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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Citations in the corpus
- Natural resources, financial development and institutional quality in Africa: Is there a resource curse? (2018, background): “Torvik (2002), posits that a natural resource bonanza could shift productive entrepreneurs to rent seeking.”
- Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing? (2011, background): “Governments of resource rich countries often seem unable to provide basic security to their citizens since natural resource wealth elicits violence, theft, and looting often financed by rebel groups and competing war lords (e.g., Stergios Skaperdas 2002; Mehlum, Moene, and Torvik 2002).”
- Institutions and the Resource Curse (2006, critical): “This finding is consistent with our model but is in contrast to earlier resource curse models, such as the Dutch disease models by van Wijnbergen (1984), Krugman (1987) and Sachs and Warner (1995),5 and the rent-seeking models by Lane and Tornell (1996), Tornell and Lane (1999) and Torvik (2002).”
- The role of country-level institutional factors in escaping the natural resource curse: Insights from Ghana (2019, background): “…on transparency and accountability, including efficient and equitable management of natural resource wealth in developing countries as being the antidote to the natural resource sustainability (Torvik, 2002, 2009; Collier et al., 2011; van der Ploeg, 2011; Ackah-Baidoo, 2012; Corrigan, 2014).”
- War Signals: A Theory of Trade, Trust and Conflict (2011, neutral): “Mühlebachstrasse 86 8008 Zürich SWITZERLAND”
- Escaping the Resource Curse and the Dutch Disease? When and Why Norway Caught up with and Forged ahead of Its Neighbors (2006, background): “Many authors, e.g. Auty (2001a), Gylfason (2001a), Sachs and Warner, Stevens, and Torvik (2002) point toward rent seeking and corruption as core elements of what causes the curse.”