... 2026 27 04 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Entrepreneurship Investment Institutions Legal system and property rights Economic freedom Income-levels Dynamic analysis Sustainable economic growth, poverty...

...Indu Khurana; Dmitriy Krichevskiy; Gregory Dempster; Sean Stimpson Purpose This paper aims to examine how economic freedom impacts the initial choice of legal structure for startup firms. The authors do this by first exploring whether economic freedom is an essential determinant of the initial...

... and combined our data with publicly available information. Findings The authors find that Belarus would have risen from 61st in the 2012/2013 Global Competitiveness Index to 55th in 2013/2014. The authors also estimate a position of 125th on the 2018 Economic Freedom Index. Research limitations...

... of five measures of entrepreneurial activity. To measure state economic development incentives programs, they use a new and substantially improved data set from Bartik (2017). They also include a measure for economic freedom, the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America index. Findings...

..., it becomes harder to reduce the size of the government. More veto players may thereby slow down the pace of potentially beneficial adjustments of the size of government. Entrepreneurship Economic freedom Veto institutions M13 O31 O50 Commentators, politicians, and pundits have...

... its effectiveness at affecting institutional reform in participating countries. Design/methodology/approach The authors document how participating countries fared in terms of the quality of their policies and institutions. The authors employ the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World...

.... The policies are, as follows: higher quality government regulation of businesses and higher levels of economic freedom. Design/methodology/approach – The paper first provides a basic model focussing upon the regulation and economic freedom variables. The study then adds a dummy variable for G8 nations...

...Lauren R. Heller; E. Frank Stephenson Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reconcile research finding that labor market outcomes are related to economic freedom for entrepreneurs and separate research finding that higher homeownership rates are associated with more unemployment. Design...

... freedom at the MSA level, they find that smaller government – greater economic freedom – engenders greater entrepreneurial activity. Kreft and Sobel (2005) test the causal relation between several measures of entrepreneurship and local economic activity. Finding that entrepreneurship causes increased...

...Noel Campbell; David T. Mitchell; Tammy M. Rogers Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a robustness check of the relationship between entrepreneurial activity and economic freedom. As a deliberate “robustness check,” the authors estimated various spatial measures of entrepreneurship...