Recent contributions to the Variety of capitalism literature have argued that nonliberal economies should be expected to have less accommodating macroeconomic policies than Liberal Market Economies (LMEs). Using Time Series Cross Section data on 16 OECD countries between 1980 and 2002, we test...

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