Special-Interest Groups and Volatility

Bonnie Wilson, Jac Heckelman and Dennis Coates

Economics Bulletin, 2007, vol. 15, issue 18, 1-13

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.

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Date: 2007-08-21
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