Arab Spring, democratization of corruption, and income inequality

IF 2.8 3区 经济学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE
Chandan Kumar Jha, Fatih Kırşanlı
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Abstract

How do political crises affect the interaction between economic and political outcomes? In this paper, we study one of the consequences of political turmoil by empirically examining whether the Arab Spring influenced the relationship between corruption and income inequality. Using panel data from 1996 to 2019 for the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries, we find that while corruption is positively associated with income inequality, the interaction term between corruption and the Arab Spring is negatively associated with income inequality. This result is consistent with the view that corruption has become more democratized after the Arab Spring. We use instrumental variable (IV) analysis to address potential endogeneity issues. Our findings suggest that not only studying the direct effects of political crises on economic and institutional variables is important, but studying their effects on shaping the association between economic and institutional variables can be insightful.

阿拉伯之春、腐败民主化和收入不平等
政治危机如何影响经济和政治结果之间的相互作用?在本文中,我们通过实证研究 "阿拉伯之春 "是否影响了腐败与收入不平等之间的关系,对政治动荡的后果之一进行了研究。利用 1996 年至 2019 年中东和北非(MENA)国家的面板数据,我们发现虽然腐败与收入不平等正相关,但腐败与 "阿拉伯之春 "之间的交互项与收入不平等负相关。这一结果符合 "阿拉伯之春 "后腐败变得更加民主化的观点。我们使用工具变量(IV)分析来解决潜在的内生性问题。我们的研究结果表明,不仅研究政治危机对经济和制度变量的直接影响很重要,而且研究政治危机对经济和制度变量之间关联的影响也很有启发。
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