Blume, Lorenz; Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2015
initiatives, based on the premise that constitutions themselves are endogenous. Our sample covers as many as 132 countries from …. We discover that (i) new constitutions make the introduction of DDIs more likely; (ii) the degree of democratization is … positively related to constitutions containing DDIs; (iii) an increase in the number of riots and assassinations raises the …