Political instability and economic growth in developing economies : some specification empirics
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The paper empirically explores the specification of the relationship between political instability (PI) and economic growth, using data on different events of coups d’etat in sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that when a principal component of the various PI events is employed in an augmented production function, basic specification tests are met. However, specifying PI using the separate events, such as ‘successful’ coups, results in a potentially misspecified relationship, reduced model fit, and underestimation of the adverse PI effect. 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000