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Resource Windfalls and Political Sabotage: Evidence from 5.2 Million Political Ads

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  • Ehud Lehrer

    (Durham University)

  • David Lagziel

    (BGU)

  • Ohad Raveh

    (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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  • Ehud Lehrer & David Lagziel & Ohad Raveh, 2024. "Resource Windfalls and Political Sabotage: Evidence from 5.2 Million Political Ads," Working Papers 2404, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics.
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    • Q32 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • P18 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Energy; Environment

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