Political institutions and economic growth reconsidered : PPresidential address for the European Public Choice Society conference, Turku, April 2006

Public Choice

Volumn 131, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 281-292

  De Haan, Jakob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Political institutions; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250889252     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-007-9172-y     Document Type: Review

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