Rule of Law, Democracy, Openness, and Income: Estimating the Interrelationships

By Roberto Rigobon, Dani Rodrik. 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Trade openness and economic growth : a cross-country empirical investigation (2008, background): “and Rodrik (2005), Persson and Tabellini (2006; 2007), Papaioannou and Siourounis (2006), conclude a positive and statistically significant association between growth and democracy.”
Openness and Growth: What Have We Learned? (2006, background): “…regressions, whereas geography displays an insignificantly positive coefficient and the coefficient on the trade/GDP ratio actually turns negative.9 Rigobon and Rodrik (2005) take this experiment one step further, relying not on instru- 7 Again, dropping these observations would not change…”
Democratization and Economic Globalization (2009, background): “Other scholars are, however, skeptical of the claim that trade and capital account openness has a positive impact on democracy (Bussmann 2002, Decker & Lim 2007, Li & Reuveny 2003, Rigobon & Rodrik 2004, Tavares 2007).”
Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance (2007, neutral): “2 See Acemoglu et al. (2001, 2005), Acemoglu and Johnson (2005), Alvarez et al. (2000), Barro (1997), Kaufmann and Kraay (2002), Rodrik et al. (2004), Rigobon and Rodrik (2005).”
The use (and abuse) of governance indicators in economics: a review (2008, background): “Rigobon and Rodrik 2005 KKZ Rule of Law, Knack and Keefer (ICRG).”
Ecology, trade and states in pre-colonial Africa (2014, background): “The effects of trade on democracy may be positive (López-Córdova and Meissner, 2005), negative (Rigobon and Rodrik, 2005), or negligible (Ahlquist and Wibbels, 2012; Papaioannou and Siourounis, 2008).”
International Trade and Institutional Change (2013, positive): “Empirical studies by Ades and Di Tella (1997), Rodrik, Subramanian and Trebbi (2004), and Rigobon and Rodrik (2005) find that overall trade openness has a positive effect on institutional quality in a cross-section of countries.”
Estimating Real Production and Expenditures across Nations: A Proposal for Improving the Penn World Tables (2007, methodology): “Table A1 modifies the regressions in Rigobon and Rodrik (2005) by using real openness in 1996 rather than nominal openness, while Table A1 modifies the regressions by using the terms of trade in 1996 rather than nominal openness.”