zahra fazeli; Younes Khodaparast Pirsarayi
Abstract
Export sophistication, which means producing and exporting goods that are more sophisticated and have more value-added, along with economic freedom can influence economic growth in different countries through technological improvement, increasing expertise and encouraging innovation. This study examines ...
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Export sophistication, which means producing and exporting goods that are more sophisticated and have more value-added, along with economic freedom can influence economic growth in different countries through technological improvement, increasing expertise and encouraging innovation. This study examines the effects of export sophistication and economic freedom as factors that influence economic growth in a selection of oil-exporting countries. To meet this end, the export sophistication index is calculated based on Hausman et al. (2007) for period 1998 to 2017. The results indicate that, due to high share of oil and gas in the export basket, the sophistication of exported goods in the select countries is relatively low. However, this index has a positive significant effect on economic growth of select countries with a coefficient of 0.41. The economic freedom index in select countries is close to the global averages and its effect on economic growth is significant and positive with a coefficient of 0.06. Other control variables such as human capital, financial development and gross capital formation are also found statistically significant. Our findings confirm the need for planning to increase sophistication of exports. To achieve this end, apart from producing and exporting goods that are more sophisticated, the development of oil and gas downstream industries, which are capable of producing complex and high value-added goods, should be on the agenda.
Saeid Eisa Zade; Jahan Bakhsh Mehranfar; Mahdi Ferdosi
Volume 12, Issue 47 , January 2013, , Pages 153-174
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In this paper, we try to explain cross-country differences in the level of entrepreneurship using self-employment and innovation as proxy variables. For this purpose, we use a comparative approach to explore empirically the ways in which institutions have influenced self-employment and innovation. In ...
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In this paper, we try to explain cross-country differences in the level of entrepreneurship using self-employment and innovation as proxy variables. For this purpose, we use a comparative approach to explore empirically the ways in which institutions have influenced self-employment and innovation. In this paper, we make the assumption that national patent grants represent innovation and that national self-employment rates represent job replacement. Then, we investigate the relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom measures, and entrepreneurship which is measured by proxy variables of self-employment and innovation in a panel data setting covering selected countries for the time-period of 1990-2009. The empirical findings show that indices of corruption perception, business freedom and trade freedom are negatively correlated with self-employment rate. On the other hand, investment freedom and freedom from government intervention have positive effect on self-employment. Interestingly, we found that institutional factors that determine self-employment and innovation may act in opposite directions: what encourages self-employment might discourage innovation and vice-versa.
Saeid Eisa Zade; Jahan Bakhsh Mehranfar
Volume 12, Issue 44 , April 2012, , Pages 199-212
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This paper investigates the relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, as measured by self-employment in a panel data setting covering selected countries and the time-period 1990-2009. The measure of economic freedom includes five indices; size ...
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This paper investigates the relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, as measured by self-employment in a panel data setting covering selected countries and the time-period 1990-2009. The measure of economic freedom includes five indices; size of government, the legal structure and security of property rights, access to sound money, the freedom of trade internationally, and the regulation of credit, labor and business. The empirical findings show that a small public sector, better legal structure and security of property rights tend to increase in entrepreneurship. Also, we find that the freedom of trade internationally and less regulation of credit, labor and business is negatively correlated to self-employment rate.
