[PDF] Top 20 Two essays on political economy of the oil industry

... In the 1970s, National Oil Companies (NOCs) 8 controlled less than 10% of the world’s oil and gas ...73% of known oil reserves and more than 60% of the ... See full document

... about the impact of the reform of the German citizenship law in 1999 and its different components on the affected foreign-citizen population in ...affected the ... See full document

... (Pemex), the Mexican state-owned company in charge of all petrochemical activities in the country, started facing economic difficulties around three decades ...particular, the company ... See full document

... possible the well-known Downsian model of political competition (Downs, 1957; Hotelling, ...A political party defends the principles of representative democracy (Party A) and ... See full document

... over the past two years. Deficit financing and the high costs associated with the Gulf crisis com- pelled Saudi Arabia to draw heavily on its foreign reserves and start borrowing from ... See full document

... tackles the configuration of the teams in terms of optimal level of diversification providing experimental evidence on the relationship between outcomes achieved and ... See full document

... studies the performance of several simple monetary policy rules, modi ed to comply with the zero oor, relative to the optimal ...policy. The analysis is carried out within a stochastic ... See full document

... 5 The first essay discusses an early event that will shape the relationship between China and the West until our days: the Unequal Treaties that were signed after Great Britain defeated China ... See full document

... discussion of the last two points also weakens the force of Hymer’s belief in the merits of ‘central ...development, the case for central planning as a ... See full document

... with the effect of the number of parties on the policymaking ...analyse the efficiency of the budget distribution among the districts of a ... See full document

... risks of creating the OMD ST in the form of a non-profit partnership are: limited financial support/guarantees from the authorities, low level of influence on strategic ... See full document

... analyze the feasibility of legal reforms to the Mexican oil ...studying the politics of energy reform as they occur in Congressional ...negotiations. The main contribution ... See full document

... characterize two Markov perfect equilibria: one myopic and another strategic. In the myopic equilibrium we derive a choice rule that is increasing in capital stock (if capital stock increases, decisive ... See full document

... completely the political incentives that media outlets have to bias the coverage of local corruption cases, we must recall the a priori considerable potential impact of scandals ... See full document

... with the previously enforced is that the patient used to pay only a (fixed) copayment of the price, irrespectively of the good ...use the Spanish way of ... See full document

... Now, the possibility that individuals exhibit group-loyal altruistic preferences, and the effect this has on the choice between centralized and decentralized redistribution, has also been ... See full document

... to the technological infrastructure on which the agro-industry is ...level of education, but they all require certain skills and particular ways of doing ...are the ... See full document

... not the first time that strategy has been suggested, there is an esta- blished literature on the importance of distinctive missions (Clark, ...reconsider the further pursuit of ... See full document

... 2018). The possible explanation of this result could be related to the proposed by Bayat et ...than the degree of unsaturation has a negative effect in ...levels of dietary ... See full document

... After a literature review and analyzing which topics could be useful for diagnosing the current situation of informal entrepreneurs I chose three topics: 1 the logics that motívate them [r] ... See full document