“资源诅咒”:制度视域的解析

An Analysis of "Resource Curse":An Institutional Explanation

发展经济学家通过对资源禀赋不同的国家的实证研究发现,自然资源与经济增长之间存在负相关关系,这一悖论被称为"资源诅咒"。本文试图通过一个两区域模型的三阶段分析,来证明"资源诅咒"的发生源自一个区域在增长初期所倚重的生产要素的选择,且这个选择以交易费用最低为标准。虽然自然资源丰裕区域最初的增长路径是完全理性和经济的,但因其在增长过程中不合理的制度及其变迁过程中恶性的路径依赖,从而被资源所"诅咒"。

According to many empirical studies of countries with different natural resource endowments, economists have found that natural resource abundance has a negative effect on economic growth. This paradox is called ＂Resource Curse. ＂ From a three-stage-two-area-model, this paper aims to prove that it is wise for countries/areas that have abundant natural resources to develop its natural resource-based in- dustry at the very beginning, and the standard choose is the one that costs the lowest transaction fee. It is economic and rational for natural resources abundant area to make the first choice at the very beginning, but because of the unreasonable institution and the malignant path dependence, the area finally will be cursed by its abundant resources.