2021
DOI: 10.1017/s1744137421000217
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Economic freedom reform: does culture matter?

Abstract: We analyse the role of culture in economic freedom reform and dispersion in an unbalanced panel of up to 80 countries, and in dyadic models with up to 3,003 unique country pairs. We find that a sense of individualism strengthens the effectiveness of democracy in promoting economic freedom within countries over 1950–2015, and that institutional distance between countries increases in their cultural distance, suggesting an important role of culture in determining long-run institutional equilibria. Our results ar… Show more

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“…Thus, these societies tend to be more democratic. Moreover, Moellman and Tarabar (2022) find that a sense of individualism strengthens the effectiveness of democracy. This is in comparison to in-group favoritism, inherent to collectivist societies, which tends to engender corruption, nepotism and clientelism in the public sphere (Kyriacou, 2016).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Thus, these societies tend to be more democratic. Moreover, Moellman and Tarabar (2022) find that a sense of individualism strengthens the effectiveness of democracy. This is in comparison to in-group favoritism, inherent to collectivist societies, which tends to engender corruption, nepotism and clientelism in the public sphere (Kyriacou, 2016).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Therefore, policymakers should give importance to intellectual property rights to increase total factor productivity and promote active economic convergence between regions, regardless of their heterogeneity [43,44]. This is how the positive relationship of the quality of institutions that help mitigate underdevelopment, inciting economic complexity and that are contrary to traditional practices without adequate governance has been studied [45][46][47]. The performance of institutions in economic development depends on their ability to enforce property rights and offer opportunities to large sectors of society [48].…”
Section: Do Not Removementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sustainable development affects the process of social harmonization, as it is oriented to overcome human activity in disharmony with nature. In this regard, research in the field of "green economy" [16][17][18], ecological culture [19][20][21] and economic culture [22][23][24], and rational consumption of resources [25][26][27] are of particular importance.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%