The Index of Economic Freedom

By Judy Li. 2008

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Terrorism and the world economy (2005, methodology): “To measure the degree of openness of a country to foreign capital we use the index of capital flows and foreign investment restrictions published as a factor of the Index of Economic Freedom by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal (Miles et al., 2004).”
Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association, and Redundancy (2013, methodology): “The second composite index is the Index of Economic Freedom (IEF) obtained from the Heritage Foundation (2008).”
Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean (2009, background): “[13] Miles, Marc, Edwin Feulner and Mary O’Grady, 2005 Index of Economic Freedom, The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal (2005).”
Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Motivating Factors and Policy Issues (2009, background): “Finally, the Global Corruption Report [Transparency International (2003)], the Index of Economic Freedom [Heritage Foundation (2004)], and the Economic Freedom of The World [Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2003)] point to SSA lacking sufficiency in the prerequisites for FDI attraction.”