Freedom Rights and Economic Freedom – Two Different Factors of the Economic Development?

Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and economic freedom, while empowerment ...

Economic Freedom, Economic Growth And Governments Tax Revenue In (MENA)

Economic Freedom and Economic Volatility

Theory suggests that economic freedom—measured by the Economic Freedom of the World Index (EFW) -may increase or decrease economic volatility. Similar to previous literature, we empirically test the relationship between economic freedom and economic volatility, but we differ from the literature in how we account for (1) changes in EFW, and (2) the nonlinear relationship between freedom and vola...

Economic Freedom

Most studies of the relation between economic freedom and growth of GDP have found a positive relation. One problem in this area is the choice of economic freedom measure. A single measure does not reflect the complex economic environment and a highly aggregated index makes it difficult to draw policy conclusions. In this paper we investigate what specific types of economic freedom measures tha...

The Effect of Economic Freedom on Bank Performance

The banking sector is one of the important financial intermediaries in an economic system. Improvement in the banking sector can achieve optimal allocation of financial resources. The performance of banks and other financial service providers has direct effect on economic growth. One of the factors that can affect the banks operation is economic freedom. Economic freedom and freedom of private ...