Natural resources, democracy and corruption

European Economic Review

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 608-621

  Bhattacharyya, Sambit ^a   Hodler, Roland ^b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corruption; Democracy; Natural resources; Political institutions

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; DEMOCRACY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAME THEORY; INCOME; NATURAL RESOURCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77952548143     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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