Robert Fritzsch provides an institutional economic analysis of the Great Recession. The author shows that institutions matter as determinants of crisis resilience - however in a different way than predicted by the prominent theories of Olson (1982) and North, Wallis, Weingast (2009), as the crisis was most severe in developed countries with democratic political institutions, rule of law and restrained regulations. The empirical results support theoretical predictions only within the sub-group of developed countries, where rule of law and restrained regulations show a positive association with crisis resilience.

Publication in the field of institutional economics

Autorentext

Robert Fritzsch is research associate at the chair of institutional economics and economic policy at the University of Erfurt.

Inhalt

Political Institutions, Interest Group Activity and Crisis Resilience.- Economic Institutions and Crisis Resilience.