0367992 - NHÚ 2012 CZ eng V - Výzkumná zpráva
Aliyev, Ilkin
Understanding the resource impact using matching.
Prague: CERGE-EI, 2011. 52 s. CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, 451. ISSN 1211-3298
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT LC542
Výzkumný záměr: CEZ:AV0Z70850503
Klíčová slova: resource-rich countries * minimum-distance matching * relative GDP growth
Kód oboru RIV: AH - Ekonomie
http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp451.pdf

We investigate the resource impact on economic growth using matching. Using a nonparametric minimum-distance matching method, we match the countries according to their observable characteristics, and estimate the relative growth rates of each matched pair. This way we are able to analyze the impact of the resources on relative growth rates, rather than on absolute growth rates as it has been done in the literature. Assuming correlation between observables and unobservables, the matching based on observables may control for unobservables as well. If this assumption is satisfied, matching allows us to control for more variables and to single out the direct effect of the resource abundance variable.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0202477