Do Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship Impact Total Factor Productivity?

2 . Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship

Economic Freedom and the Impact of Technology on Productivity

A well-developed body of literature has detected positive effects of technology investments on economic growth. We contribute to this literature by studying the joint effects of technology and economic freedom on economic growth. Using two different time points, 1990 and 2000, and a sample of over 100 countries, we find that economic freedom enhances the effect of technology on economic growth....

Freedom, barriers to entry, entrepreneurship, and economic progress

While entrepreneurs benefit from unrestricted free entry into markets, they have a time-inconsistent incentive to lobby for government entry restrictions once they become successful. Bad political institutions yield to these demands, and growing barriers are placed on domestic and international competition. Good institutions do not, and this effort is instead channeled toward further wealth cre...

Do Foreign Firms Bring Greater Total Factor Productivity to Japan?

The impact of Total Factor Productivity Growth on Industrial Employment level (case study: Iran)

Productivity growth is playing the main role for economics and some believe that underdevelopment is due to low productivity. The productivity growth is a solution to overcome the production problem and capital constraints and that is why it is highlighted in Iranian economy. The purpose of this paper is to study the productivity growth of all factors of production and employment in industry se...