Democracy, Volatility, and Economic Development

By A. M. Mobarak. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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In Demography

1. Jean-Louis Combes
2. C. Ebeke
3. P. Lectard
4. P. Ngobo
5. M. Fouda
6. Andrew Williams
7. David S. Brown
8. Abu Siddique

In Economics and Econometrics

1. C. Ebeke
2. Jean-Louis Combes
3. P. Lectard
4. Eric Rougier
5. P. Ngobo
6. M. Fouda
7. Andrew Williams
8. David S. Brown

In Information Systems

1. C. Ebeke
2. Jean-Louis Combes
3. P. Lectard
4. P. Ngobo
5. M. Fouda
6. Andrew Williams
7. David S. Brown
8. Abu Siddique

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• Can Developing Countries Gain from Defying Comparative Advantage? Distance to Comparative Advantage, Export Diversification and Sophistication, and the Dynamics of Specialization (2018, background): “…terms of economic growth (Hausman et al., 2007; Hesse, 2008; Jarreau and Poncet, 2012; Anand et al., 2012; IMF, 2014; Mau, 2016), output stability (Mobarak, 2005; Koren and Tenreyro, 2007; Malik and Temple, 2008; Camhano da Costa Neto and Romeu, 2011) and democracy (Cuberes and Jerzmanowski,…”
• The use (and abuse) of governance indicators in economics: a review (2008, background): “This score increases (that is, the constraints get larger) as the branches of government become less aligned with the executive.5 Papers to have used this version of constraints include Aghion and Alesina (2004), Mobarak (2005), and Plumper and Martin (2003), among others.”
• The Transforming Power of Democracy: Regime Type and the Distribution of Electricity (2009, background): “These are admittedly not perfect solutions, but data on all possibly relevant covariates simply do not exist for our panel of 733 country-year observations, and instruments for democratic institutions proposed in the literature (Acemoglu et al. 2002; Mobarak 2005) are cross sectional.”
• Are Crises Good for Long-Term Growth? The Role of Political Institutions (2010, unknown): “Mobarak (2005) studies the interrelationship between democracy, volatility and growth.”
• Is ‘Good’ governance good for business? A cross-national analysis of firms in African countries☆ (2012, background): “Research on democracy and political stability shows that democracies have lower growth volatility (Quinn & Woolley, 2001; Mobarak, 2005).”
• Remittances and Household Consumption Instability in Developing Countries (2011, result): “These theoretical arguments of a negative relationship between democracy and instability are supported by empirical studies (Acemoglu et al., 2003; Mobarak, 2005 and Yang, 2008).”
• Democracy, Political Risks and Stock Market Performance (2015, unknown): “Further evidence on the negative effects of democracy on volatility of growth is provided in Mobarak (2005).”
• The Geography of Output Volatility (2009, unknown): “[76] Mobarak, A.”
• Institutional determinants of R&D investment: Evidence from emerging markets (2019, background): “Political instability is the major cause of economic uncertainty as suggested by Mobarak (2005) and Klomp and Haan (2009).”