Resource abundance and public finances in five peripheral economies, 1850s-1930s
| dc.contributor.author | Peres-Cajías, José | |
| dc.contributor.author | Torregrosa Hetland, Sara | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ducoing Ruiz, Cristián | |
| dc.contributor.department | Economía | es_ES |
| dc.contributor.department | Ekonomia | eu |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-03T08:27:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-03T08:27:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-01-13 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2025-01-03T08:23:03Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The resource curse literature has established that taxation of natural resources might limit the long-term development of fiscal capacity in resource-rich countries. This article explores if, and how, natural resource abundance generates fiscal dependence on natural resource revenues. We compare five peripheral economies of Latin America (Bolivia, Chile, Peru) and Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden) over a period of 90 years, between 1850 and 1939. Both groups were natural resource abundant, but in the latter natural resource dependence decreased over time. By using a novel database, we find that fiscal dependence was low in Norway and Sweden, while high and unstable in Bolivia, Chile and Peru. This suggests that natural resource abundance should not be mechanically linked to fiscal dependence. An accounting identity shows that sudden increases in fiscal dependence were related to both economic and political factors: countries' economic diversification, and attitudes of the relevant political forces about how taxation affects the companies operating in the natural resource sector. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is funded by Vetenskapsrådet (The Swedish Research council). Project Sustainable Development, Fiscal Policy and Natural Resources Management. Bolivia, Chile and Peru in the Nordic countries' mirror, Reference: 2016-05721. Peres-Cajías also acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya-AGAUR through the Beatriu de Pinós program (BP 2016-00407). Torregrosa-Hetland also acknowledges funding from Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse with the project ref. P18- 0034, as well as from Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council), ref. 2018-01269 | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Peres-Cajías, J., Torregrosa-Hetland, S., Ducoing, C. (2022) Resource abundance and public finances in five peripheral economies, 1850s-1930s. Resources Policy, 76, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102539 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102539 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0301-4207 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/52814 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Resources Policy, 76(2022), 1-20. | |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102539 | |
| dc.rights | © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. | |
| dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Natural resources curse | en |
| dc.subject | Taxation | en |
| dc.subject | Latin America | en |
| dc.subject | Scandinavia | en |
| dc.subject | Rentier state | en |
| dc.subject | Fiscal contract | en |
| dc.title | Resource abundance and public finances in five peripheral economies, 1850s-1930s | en |
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