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Democracy versus dictatorship? : the political determinants of growth episodes
Sen, Kunal; Pritchett, Lant; Kar, Sabyasachi; Raihan, Selim - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665415
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Political Regimes and Economic Growth in Latin America
Albornoz, Facundo; Dutta, Jayasri - 2007
tries to identify the effect of democracy on economic prosperity, little work has been done to understand the determinants … of economic growth under democracy. This paper examines whether the determinants of economic growth in Latin America are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050291
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Efficiency, Policy Selection, and Growth in Democracy and Autocracy : A Formal Dynamical Model
Akhremenko, Andrei - 2014
The main focus of this paper is the impact of efficiency losses, related to public capital stock, on the prospects of economic growth in democratic and autocratic political environments. We introduce a distinction between two types of efficiency loss: along with the loss of public capital during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044749
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Democracy vs. dictatorship : comparing the evolution of economic growth under two political regimes
Schiffbauer, Marc; Shen, Ling - In: The economics of transition 18 (2010) 1, pp. 59-90
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003970091
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2015
This research explores the origins of the variation in the prevalence and nature of political institutions across globe. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variation in the inherent diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of Homo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333029
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645955
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670896
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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412764
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Political institutions and output collapses
Imam, Patrick; Temple, Jonathan - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533412
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Democracy and institutional quality : theory and evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2019
We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect … of democracy on institutional quality is increasing in people's human capital. Using a new panel data set, covering 140 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236426