How democracy affects growth

By José Tavares, Romain Wacziarg. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Democracy, Political Risks and Stock Market Performance (2015, neutral): “Among others, Tavares and Wacziarg (2001) posit that democracy has both positive and negative effects; after all the effects are accounted for, the total impact is slightly negative.”
Institutional quality and economic growth: Maintenance of the rule of law or democratic institutions, or both? (2006, background): “Tavares and Wacziarg (2001), who estimate a system of simultaneous equations, find a positive effect of democracy on growth through the channels of enhanced education, reduced inequality, and lower government consumption.”
Testing the neocon agenda: Democracy in resource-rich societies (2009, background): “It is known that democracy tends to reduce the share in investment in GDP (Tavares and Wacziarg, 2001) and that countries with a high dependency on natural resources have a low investment share (Gylfason and Zoega, 2006).”
The open society assesses its enemies: shocks, disasters and terrorist attacks☆ (2004, background): “Barro (1996) and Tavares and Wacziarg (2001) both find a negative but insignificant correlation between democracy and growth.”
Trade, Finance, Specialization, and Synchronization (2003, background): “46 See for instance Tavares and Wacziarg (2001) for an application of three-stage least squares to the effects of democracy on growth.”
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship (2011, background): “Evidence on the effects of democracy on growth is mixed (e.g., see Przeworski and Limongi 1993, Barro 1997, Minier 1998, La Porta, et al. 1999, Tavares and Wacziarg 2001, Doucouliagos and Ulubasoglu 2008, Papaioannou and Siourounis 2008).”
Economic Growth and Freedom: A Causality Study (2003, background): “After establishing and solving a full system of equations determining growth and the channel variables, Tavares and Wacziarg (2001) affirm that the overall impact of democracy on growth is mod- 4Persson and Tabellini (2002) discuss the effect of constitutional rules for elections on government size.”
Religious polarization and economic development (2003, background): “Recently several authors have considered the role of religious diversity in the explanation of democracy and economic development (Barro 1997, Sala-i-Martin 1997 or Tavares and Wacziarg 2001).”
The Impact of Terrorism and Conflicts on Growth in Asia (2009, neutral): “In a recent study, Tavares and Wacziarg (2001) examined channels through which democracy may affect growth.”
The interaction effect of economic freedom and democracy on corruption: A panel cross-country analysis (2009, background): “…corruption several studies have used trade openness, government size, government intervention or composite economic freedom indices as the controlled variables (Treisman (2000), Tavares and Wacziarg (2001), Chowdhury (2004), Bohara et al. (2004), Shen and Williamson (2005), Goel and Nelson (2005)).”
Exploring the links between corruption and growth (2011, methodology): “10 The notation follows directly from Tavares and Wacziarg (2001), whereby the superscripts indicate equations while subscripts indicate variables.”
Democratization is the Driving Force for Technological and Economic Change (2010, neutral): “Moreover, Tavares and Wacziarg [61] show that democracy fosters growth by improving the accumulation of human capital and by lowering income inequality.”