Standout Papers

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  1. The political economy of public income volatility: With an application to the resource curse (2016)
    James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik et al. Journal of Public Economics
  2. The Real Swing Voter's Curse (2009)
    James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik American Economic Review
  3. Political foundations of the resource curse (2006)
    James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik et al. Journal of Development Economics
  4. The Need for Enemies (2014)
    Leopoldo Fergusson, James A. Robinson et al. The Economic Journal
  5. When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia (2011)
    James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik et al. Journal of Conflict Resolution
  6. A political economy theory of the soft budget constraint (2009)
    James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik European Economic Review
  7. Political foundations of the resource curse (2013)
    James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik et al. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
  8. Political foundations of the resource curse: A simplification and a comment (2013)
    James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik et al. Journal of Development Economics
  9. White elephants (2004)
    James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik Journal of Public Economics
  10. ENDOGENOUS PRESIDENTIALISM (2016)
    James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik Journal of the European Economic Association
  11. The political agenda effect and state centralization (2020)
    Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson et al. Journal of Comparative Economics
  12. Institutions and the Resource Curse (2006)
    Halvor Mehlum, Karl Ove Moene et al. The Economic Journal

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Plunder & Protection Inc.
2002
Natural resources, rent seeking and welfare
2002
Cursed by Resources or Institutions?
2006
Optimal Dutch disease
2005
Learning by doing and the Dutch disease
2001
Political foundations of the resource curse
2013 StandoutNobel
Overconfidence, monetary policy committees and chairman dominance
2011
Crime induced poverty traps
2005
Poverty and crime in 19th century Germany
2006
Political foundations of the resource curse
2006 StandoutNobel
Institutions and the Resource Curse
2006 Standout
White elephants
2004 StandoutNobel
A Theory of Civil Conflict and Democracy in Rentier States*
2006
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