Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/297470 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Contemporary Economics [ISSN:] 2300-8814 [Volume:] 13 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 79-98
Publisher: 
University of Finance and Management in Warsaw, Faculty of Management and Finance, Warsaw
Abstract: 
This study investigates the impact of social and physical infrastructure spending on the non-oil tradable and non-tradable sectors while controlling for non-oil capital stock and employment in the Azerbaijani economy for the period 1995-2014. The analysis employs the Engle-Granger and Phillips-Ouliaris cointegration tests using FMOLS estimation results to test for the existence of long-run relationships. The tests results indicate the existence of long-run relationships among the variables. The estimation results reveal positive impacts of both social and physical infrastructure spending on non-oil tradable and non-tradable outputs. However, the impacts on the non-tradable sector are considerably larger than those on the non-oil tradable sector. Developing the non-resource tradable sector, and thereby reducing possibility of the 'Resource Curse' and especially the Dutch Disease, is one of the strategic aims of natural resource-rich countries. In this regard, the findings of this research may be useful for Azerbaijani policymakers in taking measures that aim at fostering the development of the non-oil tradable sector, thereby avoiding possible negative outcomes of resource dependency such as the Dutch Disease.
Subjects: 
Social expenditures
infrastructure expenditures
non-oil tradable sector
non-tradable sector
Dutch Disease
Azerbaijan
JEL: 
H5
O1
O2
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Document Type: 
Article

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