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Democracy-growth dynamics for richer and poorer countries
APL
(Ajiken
Power
Lunch)
is
a
lunchtime
workshop
open
to
public,
including
IDE
staffs,
visiting
research
fellows,
IDEAS
students,
outside
researchers
and
graduate
students.
This
workshop
provides
a
platform
for
presentation
of
any
work
in
progress
where
we
can
discuss
in
either
English
or
Japanese.
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who
would
attend
a
seminar
are
asked
to
announce
yourself
to
receptionists
on
your
arrival
at
the
IDE
and
to
obtain
APL
Organizers'
signature
on
your
admission
card
after
the
seminar.
Date&time:
December 21, 2015. (Monday) 12：30-14：00
Venue:
Theme:
Democracy-growth dynamics for richer and poorer countries
Abstract
We
study
the
empirical
relationship
between
democracy
and
growth
using
grid-based
panel
regression
and
regime-transition
frameworks.
Our
set-up
nests
several
existing
approaches,
such
as
Barro
(1996)
and
Gerring
et
al.
(2005),
and
reconciles
their
conflicting
messages
in
a
more
general
model.
Our
main
finding
is
that
democracy
does
cause
growth,
especially
beyond
the
immediate
short-run,
by
enabling
the
accumulation
of
physical,
human,
social
and
political
capitals.
Beyond
threshold
levels
of
democratic
and
economic
development,
however,
there
are
incentives
for
de-democratization
in
order
to
boost
short-run
growth
at
the
cost
of
higher
sustained
long-run
growth.
Speaker：
Heinrich Nax (Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
Chair:
Takuto Sakamoto
Languages:
English
KIM, Jiyoung E-mail：Jiyoung_Kim
LEI, Lei E-mail：Lei_Lei
OSADA, Noriyuki E-mail：Noriyuki_Osada