Good mine, bad mine: natural resource heterogeneity and Dutch disease in Indonesia

We analyse the local effect of exogenous shocks to the value of mineral deposits at the district level in Indonesia using a panel of manufacturing plants. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to model and estimate the effect of heterogeneity in natural resource extraction methods. We find...

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Main Authors: Pelz, P, Poelhekke, S
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2018