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Institution covers wide range of rules, laws and policies. Two bodies of literature around institutions and resource curse have evaluated institutional quality by limited indices. In addition, although different institutions have different effects on economy, the literature hasn’t classified different kinds of institution. Furthermore, resources can affect institutions in different ways. This research has been surveyed the impact of resource dependence on institutional quality. Institutions that regulate relation between governors and citizens were named governmental institutions. Institutions that regulate the relation of citizens were named nongovernmental institutions. Governmental... 

Using a panel dataset of oil discoveries and oil prices, this thesis studies the effect of oil wealth on protection of property rights in 56 oil countries between 1995 to 2018. Controlling for year fixed effects and country fixed effects, We show that this association is affected by the ownership of oil in this countries. In countries that government is owned all the oil industry, a strong correlation is observable between oil wealth and property rights policies. But in countries that private ownership on oil is legal and the government is not monopolist in the oil ownership, this correlation is insignificant. This results are robust with controlling the GDP per capita, political regime...