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Economic Freedom and entrepreneurial Activity Some Cross-Country Evidence [PDF]

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While much attention has been devoted to analyzing how the institutional framework and entrepreneurship impact growth, how economic policy and institutional design affect entrepreneurship appears to be much less analyzed.
Nicolai J. Foss, Christian Bjørnskov
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Positive Economic Freedom: An Enabling Role for International Labor Standards in Developing Countries?

open access: yes, 2010
Approaches to economic development have overemphasized negative economic freedom for multinational corporations at the expense of a majority of the population in developing countries.
Warnecke, T.   +5 more
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Emerging Materials and Future Strategies for Solid Oxide Electrochemical Cells

open access: yesAdvanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Solid oxide electrochemical cells operate under strongly coupled electrochemical and thermodynamic conditions, where performance is constrained by interactions among crystal structure, defect chemistry, and interfacial evolution. This review, based on a structure‐defect‐property‐durability framework, reveals the roles of lattice symmetry and defect ...
Qiuchun Lu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How much economic freedom is necessary for economic growth? Theory and evidence [PDF]

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The hypothesis that economic freedom and related variables are significant determinants of real per capita income and growth is critically evaluated. Economic freedom is found necessary for higher levels of per capita income and growth largely in terms ...
Morris Altman
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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Economic Freedom Effect on Transaction Cost in the Selected Case Study: OECD Countries [PDF]

open access: yesFaslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2010
Some economists believe that Economies with the higher degree of economic freedom have a better performance than that of planned economies. This group has ranked countries by various indexes of economic freedom to show how to have access to the world ...
Morteza Sameti   +2 more
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Improving the measurement of economic freedom by replacing government size with government effectiveness [PDF]

open access: yesThe European Journal of Comparative Economics
The Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World index and the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom allow researchers to empirically test the hypothesis that greater economic freedom leads to higher economic growth.
Thomas R. Scholz
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On the Impacts of Economic Freedom on International Trade Flows: Asymmetries and Freedom Components [PDF]

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This paper employs a gravity equation to estimate the effects of economic freedom on U.S. consumer exports and imports for 131 countries over the years 2000 - 2005.
Robert J. Sonora
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