Economic Freedom and Growth: Decomposing the Effects

By Fredrik Carlsson, Susanna Lundström. 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Explaining de Facto Judicial Independence (2007, neutral): “other surveys include Aron (2000) as well as Carlsson and Lundstrom (2002) .”
Causality in the freedom-growth relationship (2003, methodology): “The next logical step in studying the freedom– growth relationship was to test the various components of freedom, and studies by Ayal and Karras (1998) and Carlsson and Lundström (2002) carry out this analysis.”
The Failure of Development Aid (2003, methodology): “(1999); and Carlsson and Lundström (2002). TABLE 1”
The Benefits of Economic Freedom: A Survey (2003, background): “Carlsson and Lundström (2002) establish that of the seven EFI groups (in the version published in 2000), four of them are positively and statistically significantly related to growth (economic structure and use of markets, freedom to use alternative currencies, legal structure and security of…”
Economic Freedom and Productivity Growth in Resource-rich Economies (2015, background): “The link between economic freedom and economic growth receives a great deal of attention in the growth literature (see Carlsson & Lundström, 2002; Dawson, 2003; De Haan & Sturm, 2000; Heckelman, 2000; Justesen, 2008).”
Who Benefits from Economic Freedom? Unraveling the Effect of Economic Freedom on Subjective Well-Being (2013, neutral): “This does not mean that legal security is not important for poor countries, however, as it has been shown to be highly relevant for economic growth (Carlsson & Lundström, 2002).”
Institutional infrastructure and economic growth in member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) (2015, background): “…well-functioning of broad institutions is fundamental to achieving economic growth (see, inter alia, Acemoglu et al., 2001; Banerjee and Iyer, 2005; Carlsson and Lundstrom, 2002; Dawson, 1998, 2003; De Haan et al., 2006; Doucouliagos and Ulubasoglu, 2006; Fedderke, 2001; Gwartney et al., 2006;…”
Corruption and the Institutional Environment for Growth (2010, methodology): “In our regression analysis, we will keep the five areas of economic freedom distinct, as studies have shown that their marginal impacts on growth differ (Carlsson and Lundstrom, 2002; Heckelman and Knack, 2008).”
The effect of economic freedom on growth revisited: New evidence on causality from a panel of countries 1970-1999 (2008, background): “, 2001), a growing body of literature has tested the theoretical arguments linking economic freedom to growth (e.g. De Haan and Sturm, 2000, 2001; Heckelman, 2000; Heckelman and Stroup, 2000; Carlson and Lundström, 2002; Dawson, 2003; Vega-Gordillo and Álvarez-Arce, 2003).”
Does economic freedom cause prosperity? An IV approach (2009, methodology): “Carlsson and Lundstrom (2002) in their analysis of the relation between EFW and growth also test for exogeneity using a Hausman test and reject the hypothesis that EFW is endogenous.”
Do liberalization and globalization increase income inequality (2010, methodology): “Following Carter (2007), we also include quadratic terms for the indices.”
Panel evidence on economic freedom and growth in the United States (2011, background): “Carlsson and Lundström (2002), for example, find that the relationship between freedom and growth depends greatly on what components of economic freedom are being studied.”
Economic freedom, culture, and growth (2011, background): “8 Carlsson and Lundström (2002) provide a tabular summary of research in the various categories of economic freedom, observing positive results for the effect of economic freedom on economic growth for categories including, but not limited to, freedom to use alternative currencies (Ayal and Karras…”
Foreign Aid and Market-Liberalizing Reform (2005, neutral): “A similar problem plagues the study by Carlsson and Lundström (2002), who use a more recent iteration of the Fraser index.”
Market oriented institutions and policies and economic growth: A critical survey (2006, neutral): “Still, Sturm and De Haan, who have applied the EBA quite extensively, conclude that the change in economic freedom, i.e. the first difference of the economic freedom indicator, is robustly related to economic growth (see, for instance, De Haan and Sturm, 2000, 2004 and Leertouwer et al., 2002).”
Economic freedom and entrepreneurial activity: Some cross-country evidence (2008, background): “This literature has first and foremost demonstrated that aspects of economic freedom and other institutional measures are strongly associated with economic performance and economic growth (Grubel, 1998; Carlsson and Lundström, 2001; Berggren, 2003; de Haan et al., 2006).”