A large literature has found positive associations between economic freedom and income,
growth, and a variety of other desirable outcomes. This paper surveys the literature that …

Economic arguments against immigration suggest that immigrants undermine the culture,
institutions, and productivity of destination countries. But is that true? Nowrasteh and Powell …

In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of
capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of …

This study examines the role of individual, organisational, and institutional factors in
influencing the decision to engage in sustainability reporting (SR) and, how these factors …

We argue that institutions are bundles that involve trade-offs in the government's ability to
provide public goods that affect public health. We hypothesize that the institutions underlying …

The relaxation of emigration restrictions in the Soviet Union and the State's subsequent
collapse led to a large exogenous shock to Israel's immigrant flows because Israel allows …

Does trade openness systematically imply bigger governments, as proposed by Rodrik
(Journal of Political Economy, 106, 997 and 1998)? This paper presents a novel and more …

Purpose Wars, and violent conflicts generally, can generate significant institutional dynamics
and new legitimacy pressures for multinational enterprises (MNEs). The purpose of this …

We bridge two areas of study by applying panel vector autoregression (PVAR) to human
capital, political institutions, economic institutions, and economic output per capita …

The Hayek–Friedman hypothesis states that economic freedom is causally associated with
stable democracy. I test a particular element of the hypothesis focusing on press freedom …