The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these … trade occurs at any moment if the countries have different numbers of intermediate varieties. The country with a larger …

trade expansion. Specifically, we present a stages-of-growth model in which the four phenomena are jointly endogenous and …

This is a game-theoretic analysis of the link between regime type and international conflict. The democratic electorate … can credibly punish the leader for bad conflict outcomes, whereas the autocratic selectorate cannot. For the fear of being …

variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …

Does democracy increase economic growth? Previous literature tends to find a positive effect but does also suffer from …

with the way democracy works) influences how a certain government size affects growth. On the positive side, a legitimate …