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Aidt, Toke S., Albornoz, Facundo and Gassebner, Martin (2018) The golden hello and political transitions. Journal of Comparative Economics, 46 (1). pp. 157-173. ISSN 0147-5967

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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 international financial institutions can trigger political transitions which would not otherwise have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find that the anticipation of receiving new loan programs immediately after a political regime transition increases the probability of a transition from autocracy to democracy and reduces the probability of democratic survival.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Political transitions; Democracy; Autocracy; IMF; World bank
Schools/Departments:	University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
Identification Number:	10.1016/j.jce.2017.03.004
Depositing User:	Albornoz, Facundo
Date Deposited:	16 May 2017 12:16
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2019 04:30
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/42864

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