The Benefits of Economic Freedom: A Survey

By Niclas Berggren. 2003

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Institutions, Latent Entrepreneurship, and Self–Employment: An International Comparison (2012, background): “Many studies using the EFW index find a positive relationship between economic freedom and economic growth (Berggren, 2003; Dawson, 2007) and causal effects from freedom to growth (Dawson, 2003; Farr, Lord, & Wolfenbarger, 1998; Gwartney, Lawson, & Holcombe, 1999). Sobel, Clark, and Lee (2007) find ”
Who Benefits from Economic Freedom? Unraveling the Effect of Economic Freedom on Subjective Well-Being (2013, unknown): “With regard to economic growth, the empirical literature reports a positive effect of increases in EF on subsequent growth (e.g., Berggren, 2003).”
How economic freedom affects opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship in the OECD countries (2017, background): “…economy-oriented institutions and policies that provide an appropriate legal and regulatory frameworkmay facilitate predictable and rational decision-making and favor the recognition and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities (Johansson, 2001; Berggren, 2003; Powell & Weber, 2013).”
Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence (2010, unknown): “…before that goal has been reached, only economic-judicial institutions protecting life, ensuring property rights and providing economic opportunities contribute to happiness, and simultaneously may also fuel economic growth (cf. Knack and Keefer, 1995; Berggren, 2003; Engerman and Sokoloff, 2008).”
The institutions of economic freedom and entrepreneurship: evidence from panel data (2008, methodology): “…empirical studies, the economic freedom index published by the Fraser Institute (Gwartney et al. 2006) has been used to relate the institutions of economic freedom to variables such as growth and income inequality (see e.g., Doucouliagos and Ulubasoglu 2006; Berggren 1999, 2003; Carter 2007).”
Institutions and the Impact of Investment on Growth (2006, background): “See Berggren (2003) for an excellent review of articles that have used the EFWdata in the analysis of cross-country differences in income levels, growth rates, and related topics.”
Does free trade really reduce growth? Further testing using the economic freedom index (2005, background): “For more detailed information on the variables included in the robustness analysis, see Berggren and Jordahl (2003).”
Do Good Institutions Make Citizens Happy, or Do Happy Citizens Build Better Institutions? (2013, background): “Berggren and Jordahl (2006) identify economic freedom as a determinant of social trust.”
The impact of globalization and economic freedom on economic growth: the case of the Latin America and Caribbean countries (2018, unknown): “…have described the first one (namely The Economic Freedom of the World Index) as the more ambitious attempt of measuring economic freedom (Berggren, 2003), while others, who prefer to use the one from The Heritage Foundation, defend its use by arguing that this index is mostly based on…”
Moving to a New Global Competitiveness Index (2008, background): “52 Heritage Foundation 2008; Gwartney and Lawson 2007; De Haan et al. 2006; Berggren 2003.”
How Does Social Trust Affect Economic Growth (2012, background): “Yet, one way or the other social trust might be correlated with growth through its association with governance, which most studies find to be an important growth factor (Kormendi and Meguire, 1985; Knack and Keefer, 1995; Berggren, 2003; Dollar and Kraay, 2003; Rodrik et al., 2004).”
Panel evidence on economic freedom and growth in the United States (2011, background): “, the issues surrounding this controversy, see Berggren (2003), as well as De Haan and Sturm (2000), Leschke (2000), Gwartney and Lawson (2003), Heckelman and Stroup (2000, 2005) and De Haan et al. (2006).”