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Market oriented institutions and policies and economic growth: A critical survey

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  • Jakob de Haan
  • Susanna Lundstroem
  • Jan-Egbert Sturm

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This paper surveys recent evidence suggesting that market-oriented institutions and policies are strongly related to economic growth, focusing on studies using the economic freedom "EF" indicator of the Fraser Institute. This index is critically discussed. Also various serious shortcomings of empirical studies using this index are identified. Nevertheless, there are strong indications that liberalization, i.e. an increase in the EF index, stimulates economic growth. This paper also reviews studies on the determinants of EF. Political liberalization is often found to enhance economic liberalization, whereas there is less evidence for causality running in the other direction. Copyright Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2006.

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Paper provided by Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut, Universität Konstanz in its series TWI Research Paper Series with number 5.

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Keywords: liberalization; economic freedom; economic growth;

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