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 …