Arbeitspapier

Natural resource rents, autocracy and the composition of government spending

This paper empirically analyzes the influence of rents from natural resources on the composition of government spending and investigates whether the relationship differs between democracies and autocracies. Both panel data and instrumental variable regressions suggest that there is a negative joint effect of autocracy and natural resource dependency on education spending. Moreover, there is slight evidence in the results of a positive joint effect on spending for social protection, while other components of government spending do not seem to be influenced. In particular, the results do not suggest that autocratic regimes in resource-dependent countries spend relatively more on military

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 27-2017

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General
Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: Government Policy
Thema
Natural Resources
resource curse
institutions
government spending

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Endrikat, Morten
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics
(wo)
Marburg
(wann)
2017

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Endrikat, Morten
  • Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics

Entstanden

  • 2017

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