『Abstract
　A puzzling piece of empirical evidence suggests that countries rich in natural resources tend to have dismal economic performance. This paradigm has come to be known as the “resource curse”. This paper deals with the role of institutional quality in explaining the transmission mechanism of the resource curse. I attempt to explain this phenomenon by using the index of economic freedom developed by the Fraser Institute as a proxy for the quality of institutions. The outcomes of the linear and non-linear interactions between resource abundance and institutional quality turn out to be the key elements that determine the intensity, if existent, or otherwise of the resource curse. Rather than look at cross country data like many others, I focus on the 10 provinces and 50 states in Canada and the US respectively over 2000-2005 period.』

1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Theoretical framework
　3.1. The Mankiw-Romer-Weil (MRW) model
　3.2. Model specification
　　3.2.1. The model
4. Estimation results
　4.1. Data
　4.2. EFI as a measure of institutional quality
　4.3. The resource curse - A quick look
　4.4. Institutional dichotomy and the resource curse
　4.5. Estimation results
　4.6. Fixed effects test
　4.7. Qualifications and robustness test
5. Conclusions
Bibliography
Appendix I Jurisdictions with below median EFI values in 2005
Appendix II Jurisdictions with above median EFI values in 2005
Appendix III Jurisdictions and years included in the full sample