Does Institution Explain Natural Resource Curse?

Joseph Pelzman, Yessengali Oskenbayev () and Murat Issabayev
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Yessengali Oskenbayev: Narxoz University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Murat Issabayev: Narxoz University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Global Economy Journal (GEJ), 2018, vol. 18, issue 4, 1-9

Abstract: In this paper we study the natural resource curse by analyzing the cross-regional sample from Kazakhstan. Our focus is to understand if the institutional quality within the country explains the resource curse. Using the data for 14 regions in Kazakhstan between 2000 and 2010 and employing various panel data approaches, we find that the institutional quality is not a determinant of the resource curse as institution changes very slowly within the country over time. This statement surely contradicts with previous resource curse literatures that utilized cross-country sample counting the fact that institutions vary across countries. Instead here, we argue that the resource curse within the country arises as a result of commodity price volatility.

Keywords: energy production; Kazakhstan; institution; commodity price volatility; resource curse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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