Spatial Channels and Regional Mechanisms of Dutch Disease in Canadian Economy
(2017) EKHM52 20171Department of Economic History
- Abstract
- Dutch disease is one of the mechanisms through which the boom in one of the sectors induced by an exogenous shock may have profound adversary implications over the economic growth in the long term. The windfall gains generated from the commodity price increase leads to real exchange rate appreciation boosting wages and prices across all economic sector. As a result, economic growth becomes unsustainable in the long run, while the booming sector experiences diminishing output and shrinkage of resources. The growing interest to the policy methods of strengthening industrial resilience revived the interest in this area. The exhaustive literature is concerned with the mechanism of Dutch disease and case studies testing its symptoms overlooking... (More)
- Dutch disease is one of the mechanisms through which the boom in one of the sectors induced by an exogenous shock may have profound adversary implications over the economic growth in the long term. The windfall gains generated from the commodity price increase leads to real exchange rate appreciation boosting wages and prices across all economic sector. As a result, economic growth becomes unsustainable in the long run, while the booming sector experiences diminishing output and shrinkage of resources. The growing interest to the policy methods of strengthening industrial resilience revived the interest in this area. The exhaustive literature is concerned with the mechanism of Dutch disease and case studies testing its symptoms overlooking the hidden spatial and cross-sectoral effects behind its mechanism. It is suggested that evaluating the Dutch disease on lower levels of aggregation could be a helpful tool to decouple underlying cross-sectoral effects. This thesis expands the current research by conceptualizing spatial channels and regional mechanisms of Dutch disease within Canadian economy. First, methodological approach to account for spatial channels behind Dutch disease is developed using the combination of multivariate cointegration analysis with structural breaks and Bayesian dynamic factor model. Second, the thesis contributes to uncovering factors behind productivity shifts and resource movements within Canadian economy, across space and sectors, as well as contributes to understanding of regional disparities emerging between regions with different industrial profiles. (Less)
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- author
- Shapovalov, Oleksandr LU
- supervisor
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- Håkan Lobell LU
- organization
- course
- EKHM52 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Dutch disease, economic growth, productivity gap, regional divergence
- language
- English
- id
- 8954017
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- 2018-11-20 12:20:07
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abstract = {{Dutch disease is one of the mechanisms through which the boom in one of the sectors induced by an exogenous shock may have profound adversary implications over the economic growth in the long term. The windfall gains generated from the commodity price increase leads to real exchange rate appreciation boosting wages and prices across all economic sector. As a result, economic growth becomes unsustainable in the long run, while the booming sector experiences diminishing output and shrinkage of resources. The growing interest to the policy methods of strengthening industrial resilience revived the interest in this area. The exhaustive literature is concerned with the mechanism of Dutch disease and case studies testing its symptoms overlooking the hidden spatial and cross-sectoral effects behind its mechanism. It is suggested that evaluating the Dutch disease on lower levels of aggregation could be a helpful tool to decouple underlying cross-sectoral effects. This thesis expands the current research by conceptualizing spatial channels and regional mechanisms of Dutch disease within Canadian economy. First, methodological approach to account for spatial channels behind Dutch disease is developed using the combination of multivariate cointegration analysis with structural breaks and Bayesian dynamic factor model. Second, the thesis contributes to uncovering factors behind productivity shifts and resource movements within Canadian economy, across space and sectors, as well as contributes to understanding of regional disparities emerging between regions with different industrial profiles.}},
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language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Spatial Channels and Regional Mechanisms of Dutch Disease in Canadian Economy}},
year = {{2017}},
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