institutions. We improve and expand upon previous studies by (i) examining decade-long migration flows that (ii) include flows not … migrants. Once economic freedoms are controlled for, measures of political institutions do not enter significantly into our …

of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical … considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on crisis risk in the post-Cold War period 1993-2010. I further estimate … period. Estimates suggest that economic freedom is robustly associated with smaller peak-to-trough ratios and shorter …

facto academic freedom as an explanatory variable. The main idea is that such freedom allows for the development of new … academic freedom and both labor and total-factor productivity growth. However, this effect only appears as long as the quality …

promote greater economic freedom and well-developed institutions to improve the relationship between financial development and …This article investigates the effect of financial development on economic growth conditions well-developed institutions … data. We have empirically examined the relationship between financial development and institutions using the index of …