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Entrepreneurship and Natural Resource Curse on Regional Economic Resilience: Evidence From China

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper explores the impact of natural resource wealth on regional economic resilience and its transmission channels regarding entrepreneurship using prefecture‐level evidence from China. Our results demonstrate a natural resource curse on economic resilience, in that more resource‐rich regions have significantly less resistance to economic recessions. Furthermore, we present evidence that much of this curse operates through the channels of resource‐based economy that represses entrepreneurship. Additional suggestive evidence indicates a greater likelihood of resource‐rich regions being unenterprising localities, partly due to the highly standardized occupational structure and government‐corruption‐led deterioration of the institutional environment.

Source: Journal of Regional Science

DOI: 10.1111/jors.12772

Authors: Mao Qiliang, Zhou Wang, Wang He

Institutions: Capital University of Economics and Business, Henan University of Economic and Law

Language: English

Topic: Natural Resources and Economic Development

Subfield: General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China