摘要:Incountries with a wealth of natural resources, governments collect much morerevenue than they can effectively supervise. As a result of the inefficient useof this revenue, the growth performance of these countries may be laggingbehind even those without natural resources. This situation is defined to asthe Dutch disease in the literature due to the first use of the case for theNetherlands. It is a fact that the share of natural resources in Azerbaijanboth in total exports and in GDP is high. This situation increases the risk offacing Dutch disease in this country. The main aim of this study is toinvestigate the existence of Dutch disease in the Azerbaijani economy. For thispurpose, "Nonlinear Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag" Model (NARDL) isapplied. It was found that a positive shock in international oil pricesincreased long-term real GDP growth; on the other hand, a negative shock ininternational oil prices decreased the growth in the long term with a lower impactthan the positive shock. Therefore, in terms of the period studied, it can bestated that the Dutch disease did not exist in the Azerbaijan economy.