Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: Theory and evidence

Krieger, Tommy

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URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-634264
Document Type:	Working paper
Year of publication:	2022
The title of a journal, publication series:	ZEW Discussion Papers
Volume:	22-032
Place of publication:	Mannheim
Publication language:	English
Institution:	Sonstige Einrichtungen > ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
MADOC publication series:	Veröffentlichungen des ZEW (Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung) > ZEW Discussion Papers
Subject:	330 Economics
Classification:	JEL: D73 , H11 , O43 , P14 , P48,
Keywords (English):	democracy , development , economic institutions , human capital , political economy , political transitions
Abstract:	We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality increases in people’s human capital. Using a panel data set that covers 150 countries and the period from 1920 to 2019, and different measures of economic institutional quality, we show results from fixed effect and instrumental variable regressions that are in line with the predictions of our model.

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