Available wisdom suggests that a negative relationship prevails between economic freedom and perceived corruption among … economic freedom in influencing perceived corruption. The firm-level data helps to explore the relationship between economic … freedom across Indian states and the perceived corruption in the formal sector. A statistically significant negative …

reform and spreads media freedom between countries. Using spatial econometric techniques, and a sample of 102 countries, we … test for the presence of geographic spillovers in media freedom. We find that a country's level of media freedom … significantly depends on its neighbors. Countries 'catch' approximately 25 percent of their media freedom from neighboring countries …

-political stability to generate a socio-political stability index. Media freedom may promote socio-political stability by making the …