资源诅咒存在吗?——基于中国城市层面的检验

Does Resource Curse Exist?——Test on Chinese City Level

本文使用中国2005年～2011年间285个城市截面数据检验了资源丰裕度与城市经济发展的关系，并就资源禀赋影响经济增长的传导机制进行了研究。结果显示，资源禀赋对城市经济发展有正向促进作用。虽然自然资源弱化了制度的质量，对制造业、创新、国内资本投资也有一定挤出效应，从而制约经济的发展，但近些年资源需求的迅猛上涨促使资源价格不断攀升，自然资源给城市经济发展带来了大量资源红利，通过传导机制阻碍经济增长的间接效应小于自然资源推动经济发展的直接效应，现阶段资源诅咒在我国城市层面并不存在。

This paper analyzes the resource curse hypothesis based on 285 cities sectional data in China during 2005 to 2011. Results reveal that resource endowment has a positive effect in promoting economic growth, although resource endowment weakens the quality of institution, and has some crowding-out effect in manufacturing, innovation, domestic capital investment, but the rapid rise in demand for resources promote resource prices rising in recent years, and the natural resources has brought a lot of resource bonus to the city, the indirect effects which by transmission mechanism curbing economic growth is less than the direct effect which resource endowment promoting economic growth, resource curse does not exist in city level.