March 06, 2006

Using the Index of Economic Freedom, the MSCI stock returns and other countries for which we were able to gather stock returns data, we were able to estimate a model that uses current and past values of the freedom index to forecast the national market returns. We found that the country index and the differences between the country index and the world were statistically significant as far as explanatory power went.

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