Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82053 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
EPRU Working Paper Series No. 2006-09
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
This paper examines how revenues from a natural resource interact with growth and welfare in an overlapping generations model with altruism. The revenues are allocated between public productive services and direct transfers to members of society by spending policies. We analyze how these policies influence the dynamics, and how the dynamics are influenced by the abundance of the revenue. Abundant revenues may harm growth, but growth and welfare can be oppositely affected. We also provide the socially optimal policy. Overall, the analysis suggests that variation in the strength of altruism and in spending policies may be part of the reason why natural resources seem to affect economic performance across nations differently.
Subjects: 
natural resources
economic growth
welfare
altruism
JEL: 
D64
O41
Q33
Q38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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