Economic Freedom and Economic Growth: A Short-Run Causal Investigation

By Jac C. Heckelman. 2000

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Subfields: Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Insecurity of property rights and matching in the tenancy market (2004, background): “Many macro-economic studies have emphasized the role of law enforcement, security of contracts and property rights for economic growth and development (Knack and Keefer, 1995; Barro, 1996; Heckelman, 2000).”
Size matters: entrepreneurial entry and government (2012, methodology): “…the broadest coverage and containing the largest number of countries and years. vi Other studies conducting comparable empirical analysis have successfully utilised the Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal's indicators (Doucouliagos and Ulubasoglu 2006; Heckelman 2000; Han and Sturm 2000).”
Economic freedom, culture, and growth (2011, background): “We also expand on the previously established economic freedom – economic growth relationship (for example, Dawson 1998, 2003; Gwartney et al. 1999; Heckelman 2000; Gwartney et al. 2004), and we contribute to a new discussion on the direct association between economic growth and culture (for example…”
Doing Business 2020 (2019, unknown): “Heckelman 2000.”
Does economic freedom fosters banks’ performance? Panel evidence from Malaysia (2010, background): “…insights have spurred further exploration into the various channels in which economic freedom influences economic growth (e.g. Heckelman and Knack, 2009; Altman, 2008; Powell, 2003; Adkins et al., 2002; DeHaan and Sturm, 2000; Heckelman and Stroup, 2000; Heckelman, 2000; DeHaan and Siermann, 1998).”
Market oriented institutions and policies and economic growth: A critical survey (2006, unknown): “However, Heckelman and Knack (2004) conclude that aid during the 1980s and 1990s reduce economic freedom.”
Causality in the freedom-growth relationship (2003, methodology): “Heckelman (2000) investigates the causal relationship between freedom and growth, including the individual attributes of freedom, using a measure of economic freedom developed by the Heritage Foundation.6 His results suggest the average level of freedom as well as many of the underlying components…”
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).”
Government size and growth: Accounting for economic freedom and globalization (2010, methodology): “Using Granger causality tests, both Heckelman (2000) and Dawson (2003) find that the level of economic freedom Granger causes economic growth.”
The impact of globalization and economic freedom on economic growth: the case of the Latin America and Caribbean countries (2018, background): “…ambitious attempt of measure economic freedom and was the one that researchers used more often (Berggren, 2003), but others, who prefer to use the Heritage Foundation index, stressed that this index was mostly based on policy measures that the governments can actually control (Heckelman, 2000).”
The Benefits of Economic Freedom: A Survey (2003, background): “Wu and Davis (1999) and Heckelman (2000) reach a similar causality result.”