US State constitutional entrenchment and default in the 19th century
Autor: | Andrew T. Young, John A. Dove |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
Government
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0506 political science Empirical research State (polity) Order (business) Debt 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Economics 050207 economics General Economics Econometrics and Finance Law and economics media_common |
Zdroj: | Journal of Institutional Economics. 15:963-982 |
ISSN: | 1744-1382 1744-1374 |
Popis: | Constitutional scholars emphasize the importance of an enduring, stable constitutional order, which North and Weingast (1989) argue is consistent with credible commitments to sustainable fiscal policies. However, this view is controversial and has received little empirical study. We use 19th-century US state-level data to estimate relationships between constitutional design and the likelihood of a government default. Results indicate that more entrenched and less specific constitutions are associated with a lower likelihood of default. |
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