scholarly journals The Relationship Between Economic Freedom with Economic Growth and Development in Emerging Market Economies: A Panel Data Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammet Buğra Sucu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Emerging Market Economies ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
The Relationship

Investigating the Lee thesis: how bad is democracy for Asian economies?

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Henrik Knutsen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Average Effect ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
Asian Context

This paper discusses the hypothesis that democracy hurts economic growth and development, also known as the Lee thesis, and discusses why one could expect dictatorship to be particularly beneficial for growth in the Asian context. Three general theoretical arguments in support of the Lee thesis are then presented. However, the empirical results, based on panel data analysis on more than 20 Asian countries, do not support the hypothesis that dictatorship increases economic growth in Asia. There is no significant, average effect of democracy on growth. Asian dictatorships do invest a larger fraction of their GDP than democracies, but they are worse at generating high enrollment ratios in education after primary school.

scholarly journals Relationship between Economic Freedom and Economic Growth in Some Selected Transition Economies: A Panel Data Analysis

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakan Türkay
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Economies In Transition ◽  
Economic Freedom Index ◽  
Fraser Institute

This study estimated the influence of economic freedom in transition economies between the years 2000-2012 on economic growth by using panel data analysis. Economic freedom index developed by Fraser Institute was used in the study. The index values prepared by this institute do not cover all economies in transition. In addition, there is missing data for the periods that the study covers in terms of some countries. Thus, the analysis uses the data about 15 economies in transition. The study was conducted within the scope of two different models. In one of these models, the global economic crisis of 2009 was also included. As a conclusion, a negative relationship was found between economic freedom and economic growth when the crisis was not included; however, there was a positive but statistically insignificant relationship when the crisis was taken into consideration.

scholarly journals Economic Freedoms and Economic Growth: An Investigation on Emerging Market Economies

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bedriye Tunçsiper ◽  
Ömer Faruk Biçen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Property Right ◽  
Emerging Market Economies ◽  
Dependency Ratio ◽  
Market Economies ◽  
Economic Freedom Index ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Business Freedom

The common view in the economics theory relating to the fact that economic freedom will raise labor productivity and it will provide effective use of scarce resources becomes a current issue with the increase in the number of papers investigating the effect of economic freedom on economic growth. One of the main reasons of the increasing number of those papers is that economic freedom can be measured quantitatively (numerically) through the indexes calculated by various institutions. In this paper, the relationship between economic freedoms and economic growth for some emerging market economies is investigated. In estimating of the relationship between economic freedoms and economic growth, overall economic freedom index, property right index, business freedom index, trade freedom index and investment freedom index, which was created by the Heritage Foundation was used. Investment/GDP ratio and population dependency ratio are also control variables in the model. In the paper, in which panel fixed effect model was used, property right index, investment freedom index and population dependency ratio affect economic growth negatively, but business freedom index, trade freedom index and investment/GDP ratio affect economic growth positively. It isn’t found that there is a significantly relationship between overall economic freedom index and economic growth.

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