Threshold Regressions for the Resource Curse

Nicolas Clootens and Djamel Kirat

No 1841, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: This paper analyzes the behavior of cross-country growth rates with respect to resource abundance and dependence. We reject the linear model that is commonly-used in growth regressions in favor of a multiple-regime alternative. Using a formal sample-splitting method, we find that countries exhibit different behaviors with respect to natural resources depending on their initial level of development. In high-income countries, natural resources play only a minor role in explaining the differences in national growth rates. On the contrary, in low-income countries abundance seems to be a blessing but dependence restricts growth.

Keywords: non-renewable resources; growth; resource curse; threshold regressions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O13 Q33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2018-11
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