Government responses to oilfield discoveries: Impact of resource wealth on non-resource tax revenues
(2024)
Journal Article
Lartey, A. (2024). Government responses to oilfield discoveries: Impact of resource wealth on non-resource tax revenues. Journal of Government and Economics, 15, Article 100119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jge.2024.100119
It has often been argued that countries that produce natural resources mobilize less non-resource tax revenues than other countries. In this paper, we exploit the exogenous variation in the timing of giant oilfield discoveries to estimate the causal... Read More about Government responses to oilfield discoveries: Impact of resource wealth on non-resource tax revenues.