Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/203507 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2019: 30 Jahre Mauerfall - Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft - Session: Political Economy - Institutions I No. A08-V2
Publisher: 
ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel, Hamburg
Abstract: 
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 countries and the period from 1920 to 2015, and different measures of institutional quality, we present results from fixed effect and two-stage least squares regressions that confirm the predictions of our model.
Subjects: 
Democracy
Development
Economic Institutions
Human Capital
Institutional Quality
Political Economy
Political Transitions
Private Property Rights
JEL: 
D73
H11
O43
P14
P48
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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