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Chapter 2 Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy, and Economic Growth

In: Economic Growth and Development

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  • Rabah Arezki
  • Thorvaldur Gylfason

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We use a new dataset on nonresource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970–2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in nonresource GDP growth in democracies, but to no significant increase in autocracies. To explain this result, we show that increased commodity price volatility leads to a statistically significant and quantitatively large increase in net national saving in democracies. In autocracies, on the contrary, net national saving decreased significantly. Our results hold true when using indicators capturing the quality of economic institutions in lieu of indicators of political institutions.

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  • Rabah Arezki & Thorvaldur Gylfason, 2011. "Chapter 2 Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy, and Economic Growth," Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, in: Economic Growth and Development, pages 9-24, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:fegzzz:s1574-8715(2011)0000011007
    DOI: 10.1108/S1574-8715(2011)0000011007
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