Special-Interest Groups and Volatility

Bonnie Wilson (), Dennis Coates () and Jac Heckelman ()

Working Papers from Department of Economics, John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University

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)
Date: 2007-07

Published in Economics Bulletin, August 21, 2007, Vol. 15, No. 18.

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