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- Title
Does economic freedom boost growth for everyone?
- Authors
Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian
- Abstract
While the association between economic freedom and long‐term economic growth has been well documented, the parallel research literature on the distributional consequences of economic freedom is full of conflicting findings. In this paper, we take a step toward reconciling these two bodies of literature by exploring the within‐quintile growth consequences of changes in three separate elements of economic freedom: the size of government, institutional quality and and policy quality. Although the distributional consequences of increases in economic freedom are theoretically ambiguous, we find evidence that economic freedom affects all parts of the income distribution equally, in addition to indications that the growth effects are largest for the poorest and richest quintiles.
- Subjects
ECONOMIC liberty; INCOME inequality; ECONOMIC impact; ECONOMIC expansion
- Publication
Kyklos, 2021, Vol 74, Issue 2, p170
- ISSN
0023-5962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/kykl.12262