Revisiting the Commodity Curse: A Financial Perspective

Enrique Alberola, Gianluca Benigno

NBER Working Paper No. 23169
Issued in February 2017

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The views expressed in this paper are exclusively those of the authors and not those of the Bank for International Settlements or the National Bureau of Economic Research. We thank Drago Bergholt and Martin Uribe for insighful comments and conference participants at ISOM-NBER conference 2016 in Sofia. We thank Chao He for outstanding research assistant and Julieta Contreras for the graphs. Benigno thanks ESRC Grant ESRC grant ES/I024174/1 Macroeconomic of Financial Globalization- REP-U623 for support. This paper was written while Benigno was visiting the BIS as research fellow under the BIS research fellowship programme.

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