European Journal of Political Economy

1985 - 2025

Current editor(s): J. De Haan, A. L. Hillman and H. W. Ursprung

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Volume 86, issue C, 2025

Inequality, local wealth, and electoral politics

B.K. Song and Woo Chang Kang

Online social media and populism in Europe

Mihai Mutascu, Cristina Strango and Camelia Turcu

The economic consequences of businesspeople in politics: A survey

Niklas Potrafke

Fines for unequal societies

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Giovanni Immordino and Francesco F. Russo

Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks

Antonio C. David and Can Sever

The institutional impact of left-leaning populism in Latin America

Nicolas Cachanosky, João Pedro Bastos, Alexandre Padilla and Karla C. Hernández

Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? – Evidence from Germany

Yannick Bury, Lars P. Feld and Ekkehard A. Köhler

State-owned enterprises, fiscal transparency, and the circumvention of fiscal rules: The case of Germany

Friedrich Heinemann, Justus Nover and Paul Steger

How social media can undermine democracy

Ronen Gradwohl, Yuval Heller and Arye Hillman

Third-party interest, resource value, and the likelihood of conflict

Giacomo Battiston, Matteo Bizzarri and Riccardo Franceschin

How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?

Eline Moens, Dyllis De Pessemier and Stijn Baert

Household expectations and dissent among policymakers

Moritz Grebe and Peter Tillmann

How does women's political empowerment relate to subjective well-being? The moderating role of institutional quality

Miriam Hortas-Rico and Ernesto Rodríguez-Crespo

The effect of terrorism on economic inequality in democracies and non-democracies

Daniel Meierrieks

Climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption

Marco Marini and Samuel Nocito

What drives abnormal returns of stock markets in wartime? Evidence from 17 invasions

Vincent Hoffmann, Luu Duc Toan Huynh and Mei Wang

Geopolitical Risks, Political Tensions and the European Economy

Jamel Saadaoui, Amélie Barbier-Gauchard and Jan-Egbert Sturm

Jumping on the bandwagon and off the Titanic: An experimental study of turnout in two-tier voting

Yoichi Hizen, Kazuya Kikuchi, Yukio Koriyama and Takehito Masuda

Political advertising and consumer sentiment: Evidence from U.S. presidential elections

Cody Couture and Ann Owen

An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum

Joan Costa-Font and Frank Cowell

The impact of economic sanctions on bilateral mergers and acquisitions

Federico Carril-Caccia

Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China

Qijun Liu

Volume 84, issue C, 2024

The transition of education a cross-country macro analysis

Martin Paldam

Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–1977

Eli Goldstein and Daniel Schiffman

Coherence of output gaps in the euro area: The impact of the COVID-19 shock

Jakob de Haan, Jan Jacobs and Renske Zijm

An experiment on donations, personal stories, and bad luck

Ronen Bar-El, Limor Hatsor and Avichai Snir

Pro-growth inefficiency: Rents and moral hazard in infrastructure contests in China

Qijun Liu and Xin Huang

More is not always better. Effect of educational expenditures on education quality and social mobility in Switzerland

Matthias Biedermann, Melanie Häner and Christoph A. Schaltegger

Pandemic panic? Effects of health system capacity on firm confidence during COVID-19

Balagopal Gopalakrishnan, Jamus Jerome Lim and Sanket Mohapatra

Leader characteristics and constitutional compliance

Jerg Gutmann, Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska and Stefan Voigt

The growth-inequality debate revisited by rent-seeking theory: Some empirical evidence

François Facchini, Louis Jaeck and Hajer Kratou

Inequality aversion and government health expenditure

Ayona Bhattacharjee, Radhika Lahiri and Honghong Wei

School performance and retrospective voting: Evidence from local elections in Denmark

Nicola Maaser and Martin Štrobl

Politically induced uncertainty and asset-market valuation

Jan Fałkowski, Przemysław J. Kurek and Jacek Lewkowicz

Assessing the ethics of prison policies to ensure human rights compliance: Suicides and self-inflicted critical events in Italian prisons

Silvia Coretti, Silvia Fedeli and Michele Santoni

Philanthropy as politics: The precolonial Georgia project for a new start in life for England's poor

Arye L. Hillman

A gate to the world for all? The reaction of neighborhoods in Hamburg to refugee housing

Marek Endrich

Media fabrication of corruption and the quality of the political class: The case of Italy

Giovanni B. Pittaluga, Elena Seghezza and Pierluigi Morelli

Volume 83, issue C, 2024

Investing in friends: The role of geopolitical alignment in FDI flows

Shekhar Aiyar, Davide Malacrino and Andrea Presbitero

Import shocks and voting behavior in Europe revisited

Annika Backes and Steffen Mueller

Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus

Martin Paldam

Stock market spillovers of global risks and hedging opportunities

Evangelos Salachas, Georgios Kouretas, Nikiforos T. Laopodis and Prodromos Vlamis

Unleashing potential: Model-based reform benchmarking for EU Member States

Philipp Pfeiffer, Janos Varga and Jan in 't Veld

Court-packing and judicial manipulation

Justin T. Callais and Gor Mkrtchian

Adopting the euro: A synthetic control approach

Ricardo Duque Gabriel and Ana Sofia Pessoa

Risk preferences and refugee migration to Europe: An experimental analysis

Daniel Joël Elanga Mendogo and Géraldine Bocquého

Social trust and the advanced aspects of social progress. Evidence for the European regions

Jesús Peiró-Palomino, Lisa Gianmoena, Andres Picazo-Tadeo and Vicente Rios

Was Bolsonaro’s 2018 electoral victory an institutional accident?

Marcelo Veloso Maciel

Anti-corruption campaign and economic growth in Chinese cities: The dichotomous mechanism of network-based political competition

Xiangyu Shi

Beyond borders: Assessing the influence of Geopolitical tensions on sovereign risk dynamics

Antonio Afonso, José Alves and Sofia Monteiro

Reinforcing each other: How the combination of European and domestic reforms increased competition in liberalized industries

Tommaso Crescioli

Geopolitical risk and stock prices

Hakan Yilmazkuday

Populists and fiscal policy: The case of Poland

Maciej Wysocki, Cezary Wojcik and Andreas Freytag