This study investigates the roles of indicators, time-series analysis, and estimation techniques in economic freedom-growth relationship. We construct a new freedom index using annual data from Turkey between 1970 and 2006. The index consists of six components: government size, market...

Governments and central banks need to have an accurate and timely assessment of indicators for the current month, as this is essential for providing a reliable and early analysis of the current economic situation. The index of industrial production (IIP) is probably the most important and widely...

This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of the demand for Canadian military expenditures through the estimation of a demand for defence expenditures model for the time period 1952-2001 using, among others, the auto-regressive distributed lag approach to cointegration (ARDL) to...