RANKING ECONOMIC LIBERTY ACROSS COUNTRIES

被引：50

作者：

SCULLY, GW ^{[1
]}

SLOTTJE, DJ ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] SO METHODIST UNIV,DEPT ECON,DALLAS,TX 75275

来源：

PUBLIC CHOICE | 1991年 / 69卷 / 02期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1007/BF00123844

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We have constructed a number of summary indexes of economic liberty based on principal component and hedonic weighting techniques. While overall these indexes are related to each other in a statistical sense, there are sufficient differences among them to impact the rankings of the individual countries. Because the liberty indicators currently available for use are fairly coarse, the differences that these weighting techniques yield in the summary liberty indexes are understated. As research on liberty yields finer measures of the liberty indicators, the choice of the weighting technique will become more crucial in defining an overall measure of economic liberty. As Table 3 indicates, the simple overall ranking index we created summarizes the information content of all the other indexes (based on hedonic, data variance, etc. rationale) and appears to be very robust with respect to all of them. In addition, all the rankings indicate that economic growth and RGDP are positively correlated with the level of economic liberty within a nation. © 1991 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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页数：32