This paper investigates the linkage between macroeconomic factors and the price stability of individual securities in a unique setting. Using a large sample of 327 American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), we test whether economic freedom in the ADR home country reduces the level of ADR volatility....

Many scholars have worried that regulation deters entrepreneurship because larger firms can overcome the costs of complying with regulations more easily than smaller firms. Using novel data on the extent of US federal regulations by industry at the four-digit NAICS (North American Industry...

Taking James Buchanan’s 1963 presidential address to the Southern Economic Association as our point of departure, we summarize some of the contributions to the literatures of economics and political science that responded over the next 50 years to his challenge to concentrate on “exchange”...

This paper analyzes the effect of economic freedom on the liquidity of financial markets using a non-traditional approach. Using a sample of 393 American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), we examine the liquidity of these securities while conditioning on the level of economic freedom in the ADR home...