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Economic Freedom and Growth:Decomposing the Effects [PDF]

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Most studies of the relation between economic freedom and growth of GDP have found a positive relation. One problem in this area is the choice of economic freedom measure.
Carlsson, Fredrik, Lundström, Susanna
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Economic freedom, economic sustainability, and herding behavior: Does the ubiquity of information communication technology matter?

open access: yesFinancial Innovation
This study investigates the impact of information communication technology (ICT), economic freedom, and economic sustainability on herding behavior, and examines whether the link between economic freedom and economic sustainability depends on ICT.
Ray Saadaoui Mallek   +2 more
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Economic Freedom: Theory First, Empiricism After [PDF]

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The aim of this paper is to argue in favor of theoretically well-founded empirical examinations on how economic freedom affects economic performance, which is not the case, as we argue, in most of the huge empirical literature developed after the ...
Judit Kapás, Pál Czeglédi
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Free to Enterprise : Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship In Romania

open access: yesRomanian Economic Journal, 2015
In this article we analyze the relation between the economic freedom and the level of entrepreneurship in Romania. The widely used hypothesis that a free economic environment tend to generate high levels of entrepreneurship is discussed for the case of ...
Radu Ioan Şimandan
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A Random Walk to Economic Freedom? [PDF]

open access: yesThe European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013
Given the wide use of economic freedom in economic literature it is imperative to understand how economic freedom evolves. Results suggest that levels of economic freedom are dominated by random shocks. Using a test for stationarity devised by Westerlund
Witte, Mark David, Hefner, Frank
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The Guarantees of Freedom [PDF]

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Hayek (1960) distinguishes the institutions of English freedom, which guarantee the independence of judges from political interference in the administration of justice, from those of American freedom, which allow judges to restrain law-making powers of ...
Andrei Shleifer   +3 more
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Reassessing the Economic Freedom–FDI Nexus

open access: yesJurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan
The latest literature reports that economic freedom is one of the increasingly significant factors influencing foreign direct investment (FDI). Nevertheless, most literature examines aggregate indices, leaving out the detailed effects of its individual ...
Imelda Kartika Surasman   +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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