0367992 - NHÚ 2012 CZ eng V - Research Report
Aliyev, Ilkin
Understanding the resource impact using matching.
Prague: CERGE-EI, 2011. 52 s. CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, 451. ISSN 1211-3298
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LC542
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z70850503
Keywords : resource-rich countries * minimum-distance matching * relative GDP growth
Subject RIV: AH - Economics
Result website:
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.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0202477