Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/106617 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IOS Working Papers No. 341
Publisher: 
Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS), Regensburg
Abstract: 
We examine the effect of natural resource abundance on economic performance during the 1996-2011 period in the 15 independent countries that formerly comprised the Soviet Union. These countries were a largely homogeneous group with respect to institutional development, liberalization and economic performance; however, these countries began to demonstrate marked differences from one another with respect to these factors during the transition, which has resulted in unique cross-section and time variation. Using several panel regression models that address the endogeneity issues, our results suggest that natural resources crowd out manufacturing sector unless the quality of domestic institutions is sufficiently high. Conversely, trade policies do not help convert the natural resource curse into a blessing.
Subjects: 
natural resource curse
institutions
manufacturing
post-Soviet countries
JEL: 
O11
O13
Q30
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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