Aggregate demand shortfalls and economic freedom

Ryan Murphy () and Taylor Leland Smith
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Taylor Leland Smith: Texas Tech University

The Review of Austrian Economics, 2018, vol. 31, issue 1, No 5, 122 pages

Abstract: Abstract Political instability is often exacerbated in periods of aggregate demand shortfall. It has been conjectured that inadequate policy responses to recessions may be inimical to free economic institutions. This paper uses the Economic Freedom of the World index as its measure of economic institutions, and finds that the change in economic freedom in the following five, ten, and fifteen years is negatively impacted by an aggregate demand shortfall as measured by negative NGDP growth.

Keywords: Economic institutions; Voting behavior; Economic freedom; Macroeconomic political economy; D72; E39; P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11138-017-0377-0

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