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Resource wealth and entrepreneurship : a blessing or a curse?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2012
investigate the reasons behind such a significant lag of the resource-rich countries in entrepreneurship. Panel data for more than … 80 countries from 2004-2009 shows that higher dependence on resource rents reduces entrepreneurship activities. The … ; entrepreneurship ; panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534017
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Can oil-rich countries encourage entrepreneurship? : 'yes', 'no' but not 'perhaps'
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2014
.e., marginalized entrepreneurship activities. Our panel data analysis of 65 countries from 2004 to 2011 shows a negative and … statistically significant association between oil rents dependency and entrepreneurship indicator. This finding is robust to control … of other major drivers of entrepreneurship, unobservable country and time fixed effects and a different measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228728
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Natural resource rents, autocracy and economic freedom
Endrikat, Morten - 2021
This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the effect of natural resource rents on the process of economic liberalization and a potential moderating effect of the level of democracy. A simple political-economic model is developed in which the government in an autocratic country faces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012543604
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Resource Wealth and Entrepreneurship: A Blessing or a Curse?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
investigate the reasons behind such a significant lag of the resource-rich countries in entrepreneurship. Panel data for more than … 80 countries from 2004-2009 shows that higher dependence on resource rents reduces entrepreneurship activities. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897846
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Can oil-rich countries encourage entrepreneurship? 'yes', 'no' but not 'perhaps'
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2014
.e., marginalized entrepreneurship activities. Our panel data analysis of 65 countries from 2004 to 2011 shows a negative and … statistically significant association between oil rents dependency and entrepreneurship indicator. This finding is robust to control … of other major drivers of entrepreneurship, unobservable country and time fixed effects and a different measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335865
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Can Oil-Rich Countries Encourage Entrepreneurship? ‘Yes’, ‘No’ but not ‘Perhaps’
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014
.e., marginalized entrepreneurship activities. Our panel data analysis of 65 countries from 2004 to 2011 shows a negative and … statistically significant association between oil rents dependency and entrepreneurship indicator. This finding is robust to control … of other major drivers of entrepreneurship, unobservable country and time fixed effects and a different measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897848
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An Analysis of the Relevance of the Resource Curse to Australia, and Policy Implications
Bucifal, Stanislav; George, Terry; Ahmed, Nur - 2009
This paper and associated presentation explores the economic phenomenon of the so called ‘resource curse’. We begin by defining the phrase and outlining the main individual ‘curses’ and their causes to give the reader a broad understanding of what is meant by the phrase. This is followed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202386
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The Natural Resource Curse and Economic Transition
Alexeev, Michael V.; Conrad, Robert F. - 2009
Using cross-country regressions, we examine the relationship between “point-source” resource abundance and economic growth, quality of institutions, investment in human and physical capital, and social welfare (life expectancy and infant mortality). Contrary to most literature, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204121
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The Natural Resource Curse and Fiscal Decentralization
Perez‐Sebastian, Fidel - 2015
Natural resource abundance is a blessing for some countries, but a curse for others. We show that differences across countries in the degree of fiscal decentralization can contribute to this divergent outcome. Using a large panel of countries, covering several decades and various fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038322
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The Natural Resource Curse and Economic Transition
Alexeev, Michael V. - 2012
Using cross-country regressions, we examine the relationship between “point-source” resource abundance and economic growth, quality of institutions, investment in human and physical capital, and social welfare (life expectancy and infant mortality) for all countries and for the economies in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109314