economic freedom index datasets of the Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal(HF/WSJ), which is a cumulative index derived … from several sub-indices (trade freedom index, financial freedom, labor freedom, business and fiscal freedom index). The … cumulative economic freedom index show us how open and business friendly a country is. The sub-indices show us openness across …

The purpose of this study is twofold. The first is to develop a new composite index of globalization based on data on … 158 economies over the period 2006−2014. The second intention is to use the new index to evaluate empirically the possible … effects of globalization on economic growth and income inequality. The index comprises 25 indicators that represent the key …

In this paper we present and describe the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring … globalisation for every country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced … by Dreher (2006) and updated in Dreher et al. (2008). This second revision of the index introduces the differentiation …

while neglecting other aspects of globalization. Besides its economic dimension, The KOF index of globalization includes the … Competitiveness Index, a renowned measure of the competitiveness of national economies according to the methodology of the World …

reference for and critical assessment of different corruption index approaches, focusing on the already known and widespread …