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Entrepreneurship, Resource Rents and Institutions

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  • Mollick Andre

    (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, USA)

  • Sui Lu

    (Shandong Technology and Business University, Yantai, 264005, China)

Abstract

The resource curse hypothesis supposes that rents generated by resource booms create opportunities for rent-seeking activities, which weaken innovation and economic development due to the potentially adverse effects in competitive markets. The quality of institutions is an important channel to transform society from a rent-seeking economy to an entrepreneurial economy. We address in this paper these channels by examining necessity, opportunity, productive and innovative measures of entrepreneurship. Using annual data from 2002 to 2017, we estimate the relationship between entrepreneurship and natural resource rents for 60 countries. Allowing for measures of institutions (corruption, government policies, and cultural and social norms) and real GDP growth, we find that natural resource rents have negative effects on productive and innovative entrepreneurship, especially in high-income countries. In threshold dynamic panels, entrepreneurial activities grow with higher levels of corruption (weaker institutions), with an interpretation provided based on the higher corruption in developing economies.

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  • Mollick Andre & Sui Lu, 2024. "Entrepreneurship, Resource Rents and Institutions," Entrepreneurship Research Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 14(4), pages 1669-1699.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:erjour:v:14:y:2024:i:4:p:1669-1699:n:1013
    DOI: 10.1515/erj-2023-0028
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