Do Coup Leaders Matter?

Richard Jong-A-Pin () and Shu Yu

No 10-252, KOF Working papers from KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich

Abstract: We examine the impact of leadership change after a coup d'etat on economic growth. We consider successful coup attempts as our treatment group and use failed coup attempts as controls to condition on political instability. To take account of selection bias, we control for the determinants of coup success. Our main finding is that leadership changes after a coup d'état have a positive effect on economic growth in the least developed countries, but have a negative effect in other developing countries.

Keywords: Economic growth; Coup d'état; Political instability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2010-02
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