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The Political Resource Curse

Is the discovery of natural resources necessarily a good thing? Examining data from Brazil, this column finds that a 10% windfall in government revenues leads to a 12 percentage point increase in corruption and a 3 percentage point reduction in the probability that politicians have a degree. The chance that …
Tommaso Nannicini, Fernanda Brollo, Roberto Perotti, Guido Tabellini
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Autocratic Transitions and Growth

In this paper we use a transparent statistical methodology to implement data-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP.
Joint with Roberto Ricciuti