Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272256 
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2023
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DIW Roundup: Politik im Fokus No. 143
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Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
Whether trade can achieve societal change is a contested topic and difficult to investigate. This round-up aims at summarizing recent empirical research on this topic while focusing on democracy and democratization as an important part of societal change. No robust results for change arising from trade can be found, but there exists an inverse causality, i.e., democratization leading to more trade. Further, reciprocal causality between democratic consolidation and trade agreements is found, meaning an influence of democratic instability on free trade agreements and vice versa.
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Research Report

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