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SP II 2009-10: Information acquisition in conflicts

Florian Morath and Johannes Münster

SP II 2009-09: Contests with rank-order spillovers

Michael R. Baye, Dan Kovenock and Casper G. de Vries

SP II 2009-08: An experimental investigation of Colonel Blotto games

Subhasish Modak Chowdhury, Dan Kovenock and Roman M. Sheremeta

SP II 2009-07: Non-partisan 'Get-out-the-vote' efforts and policy outcomes

Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

SP II 2009-06: Sabotage in dynamic tournaments

Oliver Gürtler and Johannes Münster

SP II 2009-05: Mercenaries in civil wars, 1950 - 2000

Sven Chojnacki, Nils Metternich and Johannes Münster

SP II 2009-04: The last refuge of a scoundrel? Patriotism and tax compliance

Kai A. Konrad and Salmai Qari

SP II 2009-03: Patriotism, taxation and international mobility

Salmai Qari, Kai A. Konrad and Benny Geys

SP II 2009-02: Voter involvement, fiscal autonomy and public sector efficiency: evidence from German municipalities

Benny Geys, Friedrich Heinemann and Alexander Kalb

SP II 2009-01: Coalition politics and accountability

Áron Kiss

2008-21: Measuring local government technical (in)efficiency: An application and comparison of FDH, DEA and econometric approaches

Benny Geys and Wim Moesen

SP II 2008-20: Group contest success functions

Johannes Münster

SP II 2008-19: Local governments in the wake of demographic change: evidence from German municipalities

Benny Geys, Friedrich Heinemann and Alexander Kalb

SP II 2008-18: Exploring sources of local government technical inefficiency: evidence from Flemish municipalities

Benny Geys and Wim Moesen

SP II 2008-16: Is the 50-state strategy optimal?

Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

SP II 2008-11: Strategic information acquisition and the mitigation of global warming

Florian Morath

SP II 2008-10: Non-binding minimum taxes may foster tax competition

Kai A. Konrad

SP II 2008-09: Competition for FDI with vintage investment and agglomeration advantages

Kai A. Konrad and Dan Kovenock

SP II 2008-08: Repeated contests with asymmetric information

Johannes Münster

SP II 2008-07: The alliance formation puzzle and capacity constraints

Kai A. Konrad and Dan Kovenock

SP II 2008-06: The political cost of taxation: new evidence from German popularity ratings

Benny Geys and Jan Vermeir

SP II 2008-05: Party cues and yardstick voting

Benny Geys and Jan Vermeir

SP II 2008-04: Love and taxes - and matching institutions

Kai A. Konrad and Kjell Erik Lommerud

SP II 2008-03: The future of fiscal federalism

Vito Tanzi

SP II 2008-02: Coalitional Colonel Blotto games with application to the economics of alliances

Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

SP II 2008-01: Inefficient redistribution and inefficient redistributive politics

Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

SP II 2007-11: How to make head or tail of bridging and bonding? Adressing the methodological ambiguity

Benny Geys

SP II 2007-10: The impact of central places on spatial spending patterns: evidence from Flemish local government cultural expenditures

Kristien Werck, Bruno Heyndels and Benny Geys

SP II 2007-09: Taxation and presidential approval: separate effects from tax burden and tax structure turbulence

Benny Geys and Jan Vermeir

SP II 2007-06: The political economy of the German Länder deficits

Beate Jochimsen and Robert Nuscheler

SP II 2007-04: Measuring the bridging nature of voluntary organizations: a note on the importance of association size

Hilde Coffé and Benny Geys

SP II 2007-03: Political fragmentation and projected tax revenues: evidence from Flemish municipalities

Stijn Goeminne, Benny Geys and Carine Smolders

SP II 2007-01: Strategy in contests: an introduction

Kai A. Konrad

SP II 2006-24: Cross border mergers and strategic trade policy with two-part taxation: is international policy coordination beneficial?

Kjell Erik Lommerud, Trond E. Olsen and Odd Rune Straume

SP II 2006-23: Can deunionization lead to international outsourcing?

Kjell Erik Lommerud, Frode Meland and Odd Rune Straume

SP II 2006-15: Pork-barrel politics, discriminatory policies and fiscal federalism

Brian Roberson

SP II 2006-14: Contests with multi-tasking

Derek Clark and Kai A. Konrad

SP II 2006-13: Tax progression under collective wage bargaining and individual effort determination

Erkki Koskela and Ronnie Schöb

SP II 2006-11: Towards an empirical characterization of bridging and bonding social capital

Hilde Coffé and Benny Geys

SP II 2006-10: Mommy tracks and public policy: on self-fulfilling prophecies and gender gaps in promotion

Kjell Erik Lommerud and Steinar Vagstad

SP II 2006-09: Contests with investment

Johannes Münster

SP II 2006-08: Selection tournaments, sabotage, and participation

Johannes Münster

SP II 2006-07: Disentangling the effects of political fragmentation on voter turnout: the Flemish municipal elections

Benny Geys and Bruno Heyndels

SP II 2006-06: Government weakness and electoral cycles in local public debt: evidence from Flemish municipalities

Benny Geys

SP II 2006-03: Looking across borders: a test of spatial policy interdependence using local government efficiency ratings

Benny Geys

SP II 2005-18: Federal tax autonomy and the limits of cooperation

Sebastian Georg Kessing, Kai A. Konrad and Christos Kotsogiannis

SP II 2005-17: Electoral poaching and party identification

Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

SP II 2005-14: Equilibrium and efficiency in the tug-of-war

Kai A. Konrad and Dan Kovenock

SP II 2005-13: Succession rules and leadership rents

Kai A. Konrad and Stergios Skaperdas

SP II 2005-11: Lobbying contests with endogenous policy proposals

Johannes Münster