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2012-10Type
- Working Paper
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Abstract
We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version of Acemoglu and Robinson’s [American Economic Review 91, 2001] model of political transitions to show how the anticipation of new loans from in-ternational financial institutions can trigger political transitions which would not otherwise have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to 2002 that the anticipation of receiving new programs immediately after a political regime transition increases the probability of a transition from autocracy to democracy and reduces the probability of democratic survival. Show more
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CESifo Working PapersPages / Article No.
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CESifoSubject
Political transitions; Democracy; Autocracy; IMF; World BankOrganisational unit
02525 - KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle / KOF Swiss Economic Institute
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