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Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - 2012

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization …

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Economic and political liberalizations

Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004

This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...

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Political regime change, economic reform and growth accelerations

Jong-A-Pin, Richard (contributor); … - 2007

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Reform, uncertainty and spillovers : a gravity model approach

Fidrmuc, Jan; Karaja, Elira; Tichit, Ariane - 2012

Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves may be driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of similar countries. We motivate this hypothesis with a simple...

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Economic-social interaction in China

Lindbeck, Assar (contributor) - 2008

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Privatizations spark socialist backlash : evidence from East Germany's transformation

Hager, Anselm; Hennicke, Moritz; Krause, Werner; … - 2022

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 brought the end of socialism, yet pro-socialist sentiment regained momentum surprisingly quickly across Eastern Europe. Why did voters move back to an ideology that was associated with unfree elections and lackluster economic performance? This paper points to...

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A Lipsetian theory of democratization : development, education, inequality, and resources

Boucekkine, Raouf; Piacquadio, Paolo G.; Prieur, Fabien - 2016

The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative … relationship between inequality and democratization. Furthermore, we obtain new insights on the resources-curse hypothesis and on …

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Autocratic transitions and growth

Nannicini, Tommaso; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2010

In this paper we use a transparent statistical methodology - synthetic control methods - to implement data-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth of countries that experienced a transition to...

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When is a state predatory?

Robinson, James A. - 1999

political power in society. Development is typically inconsistent with the preservation of the political status quo and this … the future. The model also predicts that the lower is the level of income, and the more unequal is society, the more …

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The growth effect of democracy : is it heterogenous and how can it be estimated?

Persson, Torsten (contributor); … - 2007

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