The purpose of this research note is to re-examine the link between economic freedom and economic growth because the connection has been massively over played in the past 35 years, using a sample of 175 countries. Answering this question has important socioeconomic policy implications as...

For the major foreign exchange rates, it is found that the optimal modelling frequency of volatility is weekly for forecast horizons ranging from 1 week up to 1 month. Autoregressive modelling is based on realized volatility measures computed from 30 min returns