Organizations and Markets

Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurial Activity

14 August 2007 at 4:49 am Nicolai Foss Leave a comment

| Nicolai Foss |

Christian Bjørnskov and I have just had our paper with the above title accepted for publication in Public Choice. I was very favorably impressed with the review process, which was comparable to the process at the top academy journals in terms of speed and thoroughness. Mail me at njf.smg@cbs.dk if you want a copy of the paper. Here is the abstract:

While much attention has been devoted to analyzing how the institutional framework and entrepreneurship impact growth, how economic policy and institutional design affect entrepreneurship appears to be much less analyzed. We try to explain cross-country differences in the level of entrepreneurship by differences in economic policy and institutional design. Specifically, we use the Economic Freedom Index from the Fraser Institute to ask which elements of economic policy making and the institutional framework are conducive to the supply of entrepreneurship, measured by data on entrepreneurship from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. We find that the size of government is negatively correlated with entrepreneurial activity and sound money is positively correlated with entrepreneurial activity. Other measures of economic freedom are not significantly correlated with entrepreneurship

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