COEP Replication Package for "Political Systems, Regime Memory, and Economic Freedom"

We expand on the economic research about regime types, culture, institutions, and economic freedom, with the development of a unique measure of regime memory and examine the generational effect of past regimes on a country’s level of economic freedom. Using a panel of 144 countries between 1970-2015 we follow the literature and argue that institutions can be fast and slow-moving. We find evidence that regime memory promotes improvements in (discourages) economic freedom for countries that are historically democratic (autocratic).本研究拓展了关于政体类型、文化、制度与经济自由的经济学研究脉络，通过构建一套独特的政体记忆（regime memory）测度指标体系，考察过往政体对一国经济自由水平的代际影响。本研究采用1970年至2015年间144个国家的面板数据集，遵循既有学术文献的研究范式，提出制度兼具快速变迁与缓慢演进的双重特性。研究结果显示，对于历史上属于民主政体（威权政体）的国家而言，政体记忆可推动（抑制）其经济自由水平的提升。