Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51520
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 643
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department, Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper provides empirical evidence for the importance of institutions in determining the outcome of crises on long-term growth. Once unobserved country-specific effects and other sources of endogeneity are accounted for, political institutions affect growth through their interaction with crises. The results suggest that only countries with strong democracies, high levels of political competition and external constraints on government can potentially benefit from crises and use them as opportunities to enhance long-term output per capita and productivity growth.
Subjects: 
financial crises
democracy
political institutions
economic growth
JEL: 
O40
O43
F43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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