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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 The present article aims to analyze the effects of high oil prices since 2003 on Iran. The theoretical basis of the analysis is the rentier state approach, the basic element of which is that rents are at the free disposal of the rentier. Empirically, the
Martin Beck
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Rent Seekers in Rentier States: When Greed Brings Peace [PDF]
, 2009 Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war.
Alireza Naghavi, Kjetil Bjorvatn
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Oil trade rents and International Income Inequality
Revista de Economía Mundial, 2021 This paper investigates the role of oil rents as implicit transfers that redistribute global income through international trade channels. It involves estimating these rents, calculating the redistributive effect, exploring the role of exports and imports and the different impact depending on income per capita.
Antonio José Garzón Gordón +2 more
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The International Oil Rent in the National Oil-Exporting Economies
Revue internationale des études du développement, 2023 This article aims to present an analysis of both the causes of the oil rents in the global oil market and an alternative approach to recording the growth in national oil-exporting economies. In addition, the article also offers an overview of the Rent Capitalism Economic Theory as a peculiar economic development model, delivering an illustration based ...
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How Should Oil Exporters Spend Their Rents? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Oil and other mineral rents are, in most countries, owned by producing states on behalf of their citizens. The paper focuses on three questions. First, how should countries take into account the great uncertainty over future export prices in planning their spending programs?
Alan Gelb, Sina Grasmann
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Resource Allocation in Oil-Dependent Communities: Oil Rent and Benefit Sharing Arrangements [PDF]
Resources, 2019 This study is dedicated to the interaction between oil and gas companies and local communities that depend deeply on the production of oil. One of the key concerns of all oil-dependent communities is the distribution of oil rent: Who participates in decision making regarding the distribution of oil profits and who can claim the benefits and on what ...
Nysten-Haarala Soili, Tulaeva Svetlana
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Oil Rents Shocks and Inequality in Iran [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 We study the short and long run responses of income inequality to positive per capita oil and gas rent shocks in Iran. Using historical data from 1973 to 2012 and vector autoregression (VAR)-based impulse response functions, we find a positive and statistically significant response of income inequality to oil rent booms within 4 years of the shock.
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza, Krieger, Tim
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Sharing oil rents and political violence
European Journal of Political Economy, 2016 This paper investigates how the devolution of oil windfalls affects the likelihood of political violence. It shows that transferring large shares of oil wealth can prevent conflict, while transferring small shares can trigger it. Among the different transfer schemes, fiscal transfers (to subnational governments) yield the highest levels of consumption,
Cordella, Tito, Onder, Harun
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The geopolitics of trillion US$ oil & gas rents
International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, 2022 Physical oil and gas abundance, turned in market scarcity, do prices of oil and gas spike and cashed rents mount. For the years 1970-2020, the rents from crude oil and natural gas sales are expressed in US$-2020, revealing the magnitude and volatility of the money flows.
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THE ENERGY-GROWTH NEXUS WITHIN OIL PRODUCTION AND OIL RENTS CONTEXT [PDF]
Revista de Estudos Sociais, 2019 The per capita primary energy consumption-economic growth nexus is examined in a panel of oil-producing countries over a long period (1970-2015), controlling for the exports of goods and services, the ratio of oil production to oil consumption, the oil rents, and international crude oil prices.
Fuinhas, José Alberto +4 more
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