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Measuring Institutions: Indicators of Political Rights, Property Rights and Political Instability in Malawi [PDF]
This paper aims to construct a new set of institutional indicators for Malawi. Our political freedom index correlates strongly with the Freedom House political rights and civil liberties indices, but consists of a far longer time series, which can be ...
Johannes Fedderke, Julia Garlick
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State political and economic capacities and the quality of government in Asia [PDF]
, 2014 This study analyzes the impacts of state political and economic capacities on the quality of government in 40 Asian countries. Quality of government data for 2002 and 2010 were obtained from four elements of the World Bank Governance Index, and the same ...
Park, SH, Wilding, MA
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen +2 more
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Theory and evidence on economic freedom and economic growth: A comment [PDF]
Altman (2007) examines the impact of economic freedom, including its various component parts, on aggregate economic performance across countries. He claims that some of the component parts of economic freedom, measured primarily with the Economic Freedom
Joshua Hall, Robert Lawson
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Are all meats substitutes? A basket‐and‐expenditure‐based approach
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the relationship among animal‐based meat and plant‐based meat alternatives (PBMAs) using a basket‐and‐expenditure‐based choice experiment. In particular, we examine whether animal‐based meat products are substitutes or complements with PBMAs.
Clinton L. Neill, Logan L. Britton
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The impact of economic freedom on foreign direct investment: a study of selected Southeast Asian economies [PDF]
Journal of Economics and DevelopmentPurpose – This study investigates the impact of economic freedom and its components, including business freedom, trade freedom, investment freedom, financial freedom and monetary freedom, on foreign direct investment net inflows (FDI net inflows). Design/
Buu Kiem Dang, Minh Duc Trinh
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Economic Freedom and the Sense of Responsibility for the Common Good [PDF]
, 2014 The main purpose of the paper is to describe, diagnose and interpret mutual rela-tions between the idea of economic freedom and the sense of responsibility for the common good in modern societies functioning in the system of a free market economy.
Walczak-Duraj, Danuta
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines producer participation choices considering a variety of potential benefits linked to state‐sponsored marketing programs, using a real choice dataset of farmers in Missouri. Multinomial logit models are employed to predict determinants of farmer enrollment in three tiers of the Missouri Grown local food marketing program ...
Lan Tran, Ye Su, Laura McCann
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The Foreign Direct Investments and Economic and Politic Freedoms or Could We Trust the Words of the Local Landlord? [PDF]
The foreign direct investments are depending not only of economic resources, structures, mechanisms and performances of hosting countries but also on their socio-economic, cultural and political conditions.
Bogdan DIMA, Marilen PIRTEA
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Forced to Freedom? Empirical Relations between Aid and Economic Freedom [PDF]
, 2006 The paper explores the relationships between economic freedom on the one side and development aid and IMF credit as approximation for conditional aid on the other side.
Knedlik, Tobias, Kronthaler, Franz
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