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The natural resource curse revisited : is there a financial channel? ; conference paper

Hattendorff, Christian - 2013 - August 2013 (Draft)

The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which refers to a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...

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Natural resources, demand for external finance and financial development

Hattendorff, Christian - 2014

The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which postulates a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433905

Cursing the Blessings? Natural Resource Abundance, Institutions, and Economic Growth

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2007

Since Sachs and Warner's (1995a) contribution, there has been a lively debate on the so-called natural resource curse. This paper re-examines the effects of natural resource abundance on economic growth using new measures of resource endowment and considering the role of institutional quality....

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The Resource Curse Hypothesis and its Transmission Channels

Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2005

explanatory variables, such as corruption, investment, openness, terms of trade, and schooling, are included. We study the …

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Does the Canadian Economy Suffer from Dutch Disease?

Beine, Michel; Bos, Charles S.; Coulombe, Serge - 2014

We argue that the failure to disentangle the evolution of the Canadian currency from the U.S. currency leads to potentially incorrect conclusions regarding the case of Dutch disease in Canada. We propose a new approach that is aimed at extracting both currency components and energy- and...

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An Empirical Test of the Dutch Disease Hypothesis Using a Gravity Model of Trade

Stijns, Jean-Philippe - 2014

Although the core model of the Dutch Disease makes unambiguous predictions regarding the negative effect of a resource boom on a country's manufacturing exports, the empirical literature that has followed has not clearly identified this effect. I attribute this to the failure of the existing...

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Does the Canadian economy suffer from Dutch disease?

Beine, Michel; Bos, Charles S.; Coulombe, Serge - 2009

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Does the Canadian Economy Suffer from Dutch Disease?

Beine, Michel - 2014

We argue that the failure to disentangle the evolution of the Canadian currency and energy and commodity prices from the US currency leads to potential wrong conclusions regarding the case of a Dutch disease in Canada. We propose a new approach aimed at extracting currency components and energy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708519

Does Oil Corrupt? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa

Vicente, Pedro C. - 2006

corruption. We argue that an anticipated oil boom may increase corruption by boosting the value attributed by an elite to being …-designed household surveys on perceived corruption in the public services/sector. These were carried out in São Tomé and Príncipe and in … corruption has occurred in São Tomé and Príncipe in recent years, ranging from 21 to 38% of the subjective scale. Consistently …

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Composition of Exports and Cross-Country Corruption

Goel, Rajeev K.; Korhonen, Iikka - 2009

This research examines the connection between a country’s export structure and corruption, incorporating disaggregated ….g. agricultural, mineral, manufacturing and fuel) exert similar influences on corruption across nations. Our results suggest that … corruption decreases as nations attain prosperity, as economic and political freedoms increase, and with a larger government size …

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