Judicial independence and economic freedom in the US states

John Dove

Applied Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 23, issue 1, 78-83

Abstract: This article addresses the extent to which differences in judicial independence across US states influence economic freedom by using the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of North America Index. Overall, the results suggest that, as judicial independence increases within a state's court of last resort, so does a state's overall economic freedom score, along with each of the subcomponent index scores. These findings add important nuances to the literature and provide opportunities for future research.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1051649

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