@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp4338, author={Campos, Nauro F. and Coricelli, Fabrizio}, title={Financial Liberalization and Democracy: The Role of Reform Reversals}, year={2009}, month={Aug}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={4338}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4338}, abstract={The relationship between economic and political liberalization has received a great deal of attention lately, yet the possibility of a nonlinear relationship and the role of reversals remain largely neglected. Focusing on democratization and financial reform, this paper offers evidence for a U-shaped relationship across countries, over time as well as in a panel setting using a wide range of estimators for various reform measures. We link this non-linear relationship to the notion of partial or captured democracy. We provide as well econometric support showing that even when de facto is modelled as a function of de jure financial liberalization, this non-linearity obtains.}, keywords={reform reversals;political liberalization;economic liberalization;financial reform}, }