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Sub-National Economic Freedom: A Review and Analysis of the Literature

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  • Stansel, Dean
  • Tuszynski, Meg Patrick

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The Economic Freedom of North America (EFNA) index, which ranks the states, was first produced in 2002 and has been updated annually since 2010. The 2017 report was its thirteenth edition. The EFNA index has been cited in over 200 academic articles, book chapters, and policy papers. We provide an examination of that literature. Of the 235 papers that cite the EFNA, 155 used it in an empirical study. Two-thirds of these found economic freedom to be associated with \good" outcomes (such as faster economic growth), and only one found economic freedom to be associated with a "bad" outcome. About one-third of the papers found mixed, uncertain, or insignificant relationships between economic freedom and the dependent variable under examination. Our findings are similar to those of Hall and Lawson (2014) for the literature using the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index, a country-level measure.

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  • Stansel, Dean & Tuszynski, Meg Patrick, 2017. "Sub-National Economic Freedom: A Review and Analysis of the Literature," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, vol. 48(1), October.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:jrapmc:339901
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.339901
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    1. Callais, Justin, 2022. "Free to Grow? A Matching Methods Analysis of Economic Freedom in the United States," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, vol. 52(1), December.
    2. Shakya, Shishir & Plemmons, Alicia, 2021. "The Impact of Economic Freedom on Startups," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, vol. 51(1), January.

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