This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation’s production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … based on a panel data of 144 countries observed for 1980-2014 show that democracy had a robust positive impact on economic …

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … based on a panel data of 144 countries observed for 1980–2014 show that democracy had a robust positive impact on economic …

control for cyclical effects, we modify a standard technique in firmlevel production function estimation using a capacity …

Evidence from a novel measure of democracy (SVMDI) based on Support Vector Machines highlights a robust positive … relationship between democracy and economic growth. We argue that the ambiguity in recent studies can be traced back to the neglect … of the information in the equation in levels and the lack of sufficient sensitivity of traditional democracy indicators …

This paper revisits the relation between democracy, liberalization, and prosperity in transition countries, using a …-shaped relationship between political liberalization and growth is found, such that a rise in democracy levels promotes growth only under … initially low democracy levels. Furthermore, economic and political liberalization turn out to be positively related, but with …

from both democracy and military dictatorship. …

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …