|
EconStor >
Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), Bonn >
IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) >
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35820
|
| | |
| Title: | | Democracy and reforms  |
| Authors: | | Giuliano, Paola Mishra, Prachi Spilimbergo, Antonio |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 4032 |
| Abstract: | | Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the financial, capital, public, and banking sectors, product and labor markets, agriculture, and trade for 150 countries over the period 1960-2004. Democracy has a positive and significant impact on the adoption of economic reforms but there is no evidence that economic reforms foster democracy. Our results are robust to the inclusion of a large variety of controls and estimation strategies. |
| Subjects: | | Political economy transition economic liberalization |
| JEL: | | O57 E6 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090306256 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
|
| Files in This Item:
| |
|
| No. of Downloads:
| |
| last Month |
last 3 Month |
total |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| | |
Download bibliographical data as:
BibTeX
|
| |
Share on:http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35820
|
Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
|