, as these are the reforms that allow progress. We use a sample of 141 countries over the period 2003-2013 to investigate … the link between the age of politicians and regulatory reforms. We created an ad hoc database for the age of politicians … office can be a driving force that is more or less likely to bring about regulatory reforms. Our results suggest that the age …

An extensive program of economic liberalization reforms, even when it generates positive outcomes, does not … automatically generate support for further reforms. Societies respond with strong support only after experiencing the effects of … reversing these reforms (i.e. corruption, inequality of opportunity). This point is illustrated through the example of the post …