Special-Interest Groups and Volatility

Bonnie Wilson, Dennis Coates and Jac Heckelman

Working Papers from Saint Louis University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between special-interest groups and volatility of GDP growth. In an unbalanced panel of 108 countries, we find a significant negative relationship between the number of interest groups in a country and the volatility of GDP growth.

Keywords: special interest groups; volatility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D7 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2007-07
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Published in Economics Bulletin, August 21, 2007, Vol. 15, No. 18

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