Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/38904 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3056
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Most evidence for the resource curse comes from cross-country growth regressions suffers from a bias originating from the high and ever-evolving volatility in commodity prices. This paper addresses these issues by providing new cross-country empirical evidence for the effect of resources in income per capita. Natural resource dependence (resource exports) has a significant negative effect on income per capita, especially in countries with bad rule of law or bad policies, but these results weaken substantially once we allow for endogeneity. However, the more exogenous measure of resource abundance (stock of natural capital) has a significant negative effect on income per capita even after controlling for geography, rule of law and de facto or de jure trade openness. Furthermore, this effect is more severe for countries that have little de jure trade openness. These results are robust to using alternative measures of institutional quality (expropriation and corruption instead of rule of law).
Subjects: 
resource curse
institutions
trade policies
income per capita
JEL: 
C21
C82
O11
O41
Q30
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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