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Economic Growth, Democracy and institutions: what are the evidence of these causal relationships in Latin America?

Abstract

Democracy influences economic growth? On the other hand, the durability of political institutions affects economic growth? Aiming to answer these questions and contribute to the empirical research on the relationship between formal institutions and economic growth, this paper analyzed data from Latin America in the period 2004-2013, in dynamic panel structure, seeking evidence of a causal relationship between institutions politics and expansion of aggregate wealth. For empirical tests of hypotheses of work was using the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimators using Arellano-Bond. The positive effect on GDP growth it is does not due from the type of regime, but of the stability of formal institutions to regulate the distribution of political power.

KEYWORDS:
Political Regime; Economic Growth; Democracy; Formal Institutions; Latin America

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