institutions, as witnessed recently in many countries, may jeopardise the perpetual growth effect of becoming a liberal democracy …Recent empirical work has established that 'democracy causes growth'. In this paper, we determine the underlying … institutions which drive this relationship using data from the Varieties of Democracy project. We sketch how incentives and …

produces upward-biased OLS and 2SLS estimates. The results of an analysis of the effect of democracy on economic growth show …We compile data for 186 countries (1919 - 2016) and apply different aggregation methods to create new democracy indices …

institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies … foster economic growth when voice and accountability are in place; broad-based rule of law is enforced with secure property …

democracy (186 countries, 1960-2014). The method takes its name from a machine learning technique for pattern recognition and … creates continuous and dichotomous indices. We use the SVM indices to investigate the effect of democratic institutions on … results are affected by conceptual and methodological changes in the measure of democracy. In particular, we show that …

(Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result … institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …

of GDP growth. The paper finally suggests a positive correlation between democracy and economic development. …

fixed effects and the rich dynamics of GDP, which otherwise confound the effect of democracy on economic growth. Our …We provide evidence that democracy has a significant and robust positive effect on GDP. Our empirical strategy relies … on a dichotomous measure of democracy coded from several sources to reduce measurement error and controls for country …

of GDP growth. The paper finally suggests a positive correlation between democracy and economic development. …

resource-rich sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, where public capital is very low to support the needed economic growth. In … in SSA and that this tends to depend on the quality of political institutions. We also find evidence of a positive effect … of public investment on economic growth, which also depends on the level of resource rents. Using some of the components …