Craig A. Depken, II; Sonora, Robert J. - In: International Journal of Business and Economics 4 (2005) 2, pp. 141-155
We employ a gravity equation to estimate the effects of economic freedom on U.S. consumer exports and imports for the years 1999 and 2000. Using the newly updated Fraser Institute¡¦s Economic Freedom of the World Index, we find that increased economic freedom in the rest of the world would...