Raiding the Vault: Predicting Mismanagement of Natural Resource Funds in Oil-Exporting Developing Democracies

• In Event: Economic Development in Transitional & Developing Countries

Brief Overview

This study examines why oil-exporting developing democracies fail or succeed in maintaining their Sovereign Wealth Funds, and tests a political model for predicting the likelihood of their mismanagement

Authors

• Elai Rettig, Washington University in St Louis

• Shiri Zemah Shamir, IDC Herzliya