The concept and measurement of economic freedom

By James D. Gwartney, R. Lawson. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Market oriented institutions and policies and economic growth: A critical survey (2006, neutral): “" (Gwartney and Lawson, 2003, p. 408).”
Market Freedom and the Global Recession (2011, background): “The measure considers the soundness of legal institutions and the enforcement of property rights, monetary policy (”sound money”) and the extent of government intervention and regulations ( Gwartney and Lawson (2003a), Gwartney and Lawson (2003b)).”
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).”
The chilling trade effects of antidumping proliferation (2010, background): “It varies between zero and ten, with higher values indicating more open countries (see Gwartney and Lawson, 2003, for details).”
The political economy of freedom, democracy and transnational terrorism (2006, background): “ernment Size of government spending, taxes and state enterprises Gwartney, Lawson and Block, (1996), Gwartney and Lawson (2003, 2004) Fraser Institute excel data (Fraser Institute, 2002; and at www.freetheworld.com) Scale from 1‐10; high values indicating freedom 1995 and 2000”
Political Versus Economic Institutions in the Growth Process (2014, methodology): “We measure economic institutions by the index of Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) from the Fraser Institute; see Gwartney and Lawson (2003) for the original description of the data.”
Has Globalisation Increased Inequality (2008, positive): “…first-differences the estimating equation and uses lags of the dependent variable from at least the previous two 12 Specifically, the method is the same as that applied by Gwartney et al. (2000), in the construction of their well-known economic freedom index (see also, Gwartney and Lawson, 2003).”