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Rick van der Ploeg
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 57
Citations - 3528
Rick van der Ploeg is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Carbon tax & Green paradox. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 57 publications receiving 3238 citations. Previous affiliations of Rick van der Ploeg include Tinbergen Institute & VU University Amsterdam.
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Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing?
TL;DR: This paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources and offers some welfare-based fiscal rules for harnessing resource windfalls in developed and developing economies.
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Is There Really a Green Paradox
TL;DR: The Green Paradox as discussed by the authors states that, in the absence of a tax on CO2 emissions, subsidizing a renewable backstop such as solar or wind energy brings forward the date at which fossil fuels become exhausted and consequently global warming is aggravated.
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Managing Resource Revenues in Developing Economies
TL;DR: In this paper, the efficient management of natural resource revenues in capital-scarce developing economies is addressed, and it departs from usual prescriptions based on the permanent income hypothesis and argues that capitalscarce countries should prioritize domestic investment.
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Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned Into a Blessing? The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions
Rabah Arezki,Rick van der Ploeg +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the detrimental effects of natural resource dependence on the rate of economic growth after controlling for institutional quality, openness, and initial income were analyzed. But these results do not survive once they use instrumental variables techniques to correct for the endogenous nature of the explanatory variables.
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Rapacious Resource Depletion, Excessive Investment and Insecure Property Rights
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption in a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of natural exhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights.