The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogeneous and How Can It Be Estimated?
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- Torsten Persson & Guido Tabellini, 2007. "The Growth Effects of Democracy: Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?," Levine's Working Paper Archive 321307000000000969, David K. Levine.
- Torsten Persson & Guido Tabellini, 2007. "The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?," NBER Working Papers 13150, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Torsten Persson & Guido Tabellini, 2007. "The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is it Heterogenous and how can it be Estimated?," CESifo Working Paper Series 2016, CESifo.
- Torsten Persson & Guido Tabellini, 2007. "The growth effect of democracy: Is it heterogenous and how can it be estimated?," Working Papers 322, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
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Keywords
Democracy; Economic growth; Matching estimators;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAM-2007-06-23 (Central and South America)
- NEP-POL-2007-06-23 (Positive Political Economics)
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