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Hypotheses·growth·cross_school_efw_private_investment_market_order_1990_2023

Higher broad economic freedom predicts higher private-investment shares.

SUPPORTEDengine/runs/cross_school_efw_private_investment_market_order_1990_2023

SUPPORTED — coef=+3.214 (sign matches claim +), p=1.15e-05

confidence cueThis is a clear pass for the claim as written. It still applies only to this sample, period, and method.

policy briefNeeds review

In ordinary language

Over a long period, do more market-oriented institutions translate into higher income or productivity, once the comparison looks beyond a single success story?

plain answer

The data clearly moved in the predicted direction. coef=+3.214 (sign matches claim +), p=1.15e-05

why it matters

Growth claims can look convincing in single success stories. This test asks whether the pattern survives a broader comparison.

how the test works

It compares 87 country or place units from 1990 to 2023, using a panel fe design, with fixed effects for country and year.

what was measured
What changed
  • Efw summary
What we checked
  • Private investment
what this does not prove

A single test is not the whole truth. It narrows the claim under a specific sample, time period, and method. Strong policy conclusions need the pattern to survive nearby tests, alternative data, and serious objections.

verification

No evidence packet has been generated yet.

Results

engine/runs/cross_school_efw_private_investment_market_order_1990_2023
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illustrative sketch · run pending
No coefficients yet. When the model fires, this chart will show private_investment across 87 sampled countries over 1990–2023.
The shapes above are stylised — none of the lines are real data.
Placeholder for cross_school_efw_private_investment_market_order_1990_2023. Published chart will be generated from engine/runs/cross_school_efw_private_investment_market_order_1990_2023/chart_data.json.

Who has skin in the game — schools predicting on this

3 schools list this hypothesis as a test of their position. The chips below are school-level scoreboard outcomes, not a second hypothesis verdict.

hypothesis verdict vs scoreboard outcome

The banner verdict judges this hypothesis as written. The scoreboard asks whether each school's polarity-corrected prediction was right. Raw status is not a school win: SUPPORTED supports schools that needed SUPPORTED, but refutes schools that needed REFUTED.

Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT)wins if SUPPORTEDschool supportedClassical Liberalwins if SUPPORTEDschool supportedOrdoliberalism (Freiburg School)wins if SUPPORTEDschool supported

Pre-registration

registration ordering unverified
first-spec commit 4c8ce8e · 2026-07-18T22:11:21Z
run generated · 2026-06-29T17:52:45Z
Run timestamp predates this path's first git-add commit (rebase, rename, or pre-git local run). Spec hash is still the path's first-add commit — not repository HEAD — but ordering is not a clean pre-registration proof.

Higher broad economic freedom predicts higher private-investment shares.

Falsification criterion — what would disprove this

set before the run · honoured after

This hypothesis is considered falsified if:

Supported if the coefficient on efw_summary has sign + and p <= 0.10; refuted if significant in the opposite direction.

formal test & threshold
test:      cross_school_efw_private_investment_market_order_1990_2023
threshold: sign(efw_summary)=+ and p<=0.10

Method

Template
panel_fe
Fixed effects
country, year
Clustering
country
Sample
87 countries · 1990 – 2023
Evidence type
associational

Data

VariableSourceTransform
private_investment
outcome
world_bank_wdi:NE.GDI.FPRV.ZStier 2
level
efw_summary
treatment
fraser_efw:summary_indextier 4
level
gdp_pc_growth
control
world_bank_wdi:NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZGtier 2
level

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Detailed result card

Result card — cross_school_efw_private_investment_market_order_1990_2023

Verdict: SUPPORTED — coef=+3.214 (sign matches claim +), p=1.15e-05

Pre-registration

  • Claim: Higher broad economic freedom predicts higher private-investment shares.
  • Falsification rule: Supported if the coefficient on efw_summary has sign + and p <= 0.10; refuted if significant in the opposite direction.
  • Falsification test: cross_school_efw_private_investment_market_order_1990_2023

Estimate

  • Method: linearmodels.PanelOLS
  • Coefficient (treatment): +3.214
  • Std error: 0.73
  • p-value: 1.15e-05
  • Observations: 1512, countries: 87
  • Within R²: 0.0715
  • Fixed effects: entity=True, time=True
  • Clustering: country

Variables resolved

  • world_bank_wdi:NE.GDI.FPRV.ZS → private_investment (outcome, publisher=world_bank_wdi, n=3304)
  • fraser_efw:summary_index → efw_summary (treatment, publisher=fraser_efw, n=4557)
  • world_bank_wdi:NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG → gdp_pc_growth (controls, publisher=world_bank_wdi, n=13897)

Generated by scripts/run_panel_fe.py at 2026-06-29T17:52:45+00:00

Strongest opposing argument

Every hypothesis ships with its charitable opposing argument. The framework earns credibility by handling objections at their strongest, not weakest.

Notes

School coverage focus: austrian, classical_liberal, ordoliberal. Generated and run by scripts/promote_cross_school_next50_2026_05_12.py.

Authored framework. Read the transparency note.