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The shifting natural wealth of nations: the role of market orientation

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This paper explores the effect of market orientation on (known) natural wealth using a novel dataset of world-wide major hydrocarbon and mineral discoveries. Consistent with the predictions of a two-region model, our empirical estimates based on a large panel of countries show that increased market orientation causes a significant increase in discoveries. In a thought experiment whereby economies in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa remained closed, they would have only achieved one quarte...

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University of Oxford Publisher's website
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OxCarre Papers
Publication date:
2016-08-31
Paper number:
180
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1143589
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pubs:1143589
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2020-12-15

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