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 90, issue PB, 2025

The OPEC/MENA/Arab nexus and the missing democratic transition

Martin Paldam

Baumol’s migrants: Productive and unproductive entrepreneurship and between-MSA migration

Justin T. Callais, Vincent Geloso, Alicia Plemmons and Gary A. Wagner

Physical vs. institutional public goods provision: Evidence from China

Linghui Han

Stock returns of federal reserve officials

Cody Couture and Abhiprerna Smit

Effects of IMF-supported programs on gender inequality

Theo S. Eicher, Reina Kawai Eskimez and Monique Newiak

Wealth distribution and redistributive preferences: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Nicolás Albacete, Pirmin Fessler and Peter Lindner

Dynamics of protest: Understanding violent and nonviolent protest in Africa

Marcela Gomez-Ruiz, Paolo Li Donni and Maria Marino

The impact of income inequality on public environmental expenditure with green consumers

Lesly Cassin, Paolo Melindi-Ghidi and Fabien Prieur

Population aging, voting, and political agendas

Francesco Barilari, Nicola Mastrorocco and Matteo Paradisi

The effect of international sanctions on the size of the middle class in Iran

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan and Nader Habibi

Aid, Reform, and Interest groups

Jac C. Heckelman and Bonnie Wilson

Threshold of shadows: Unveiling organised crime in Italian municipal public procurement

Stefania Fontana and d’Agostino, Giorgio

Businessperson candidates and their employees: How do businessperson candidates use their firms to get elected?

Songkhun Nillasithanukroh

Do as I say, not as I do? Economists policymakers and fiscal consolidation

Nicola Nones

Female politicians and corruption in rural India

Somdeep Chatterjee, Shiv Hastawala and Elisa Taveras

Labor market institutions and preferences for redistribution

Clàudia Serra-Sala and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro

Female political representation and budget forecast errors

Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Pasquale Giacobbe and Andrea Mosca

Corrupt reserve prices

Sümeyra Atmaca, Koen Schoors and Elena Podkolzina

Getting it right: Communication, voting, and collective truth finding

Valeria Burdea and Jonathan Woon

Local labour market conditions and electoral behaviour: An instrumental variable approach from Italy

Daniel Mele and Alessandro Pietropaoli

Preferences for wealth redistribution: The role of social background and merit

Elisa Stumpf and Silke Uebelmesser

Buy when there’s blood in the streets: How geopolitical adverse events can push defense stock returns to the extreme

David Neto

Attractiveness and preferences for redistribution in non-Western countries

Henrik Jordahl, Astghik Mavisakalyan and Panu Poutvaara

The effects of population health on political risk

D’almeida Mannko, Ayoko Charlotte, Djam’angai, Ludé and Eric Fina Kamani

Living to tell the tale: Europeans’ subjective well-being over autocratic and democratic times

Begoña Álvarez and Fernando Ramos-Palencia

Volume 90, issue PA, 2025

Invest one – get two extra: Public investment crowds in private investment

Olegs Matvejevs and Olegs Tkacevs

Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?

Antonio Afonso and José Alves

Does politics matter? A comparative assessment of discretionary fiscal policies in the euro area

Giovanni Carnazza, Paolo Liberati and Agnese Sacchi

Surfing the credit wave: Government popularity as driver of credit cycles

Etienne Lepers

Fiscal multipliers, public debt anchor and government credibility in a behavioural macroeconomic model

Amélie Barbier-Gauchard, Thierry Betti and Théo Metz

Regime-based debt sustainability analysis: Evidence from euro area economies

Benjamin Owusu, Bettina Bökemeier and Alfred Greiner

Why do governments cut their deficits?

Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta, Joao Tovar Jalles and Victor Mylonas

Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment

Martin Larch, Peter Claeys and Wouter van der Wielen

Social expenditure composition and inequality: A dynamic panel threshold analysis for OECD countries

Pedro Bação, Joshua Duarte, Melissa Pereira and Marta Simões

On the side effects of fiscal policy: Fiscal rules and income inequality

Jean-Louis Combes, Xavier Debrun, Alexandru Minea, Pegdéwendé Nestor Sawadogo and Cezara Vinturis

Shock absorption via savings in the EMU: The role of international and public mechanisms

Cinzia Alcidi, Paolo D'Imperio and Gilles Thirion

The political economy of government spending: Fiscal rules, sustainability, and political cycles

Antonio Afonso and Jan-Egbert Sturm

Volume 89, issue C, 2025

Conflict, information and regime-change

Davide Bosco, Luca Colombo and Gianluca Femminis

Flooding the vote: Heterogeneous voting responses to a natural disaster in Germany

Kerim Arin, Kevin Devereux, Joel Methorst and Marcel Thum

In the grip of Whitehall? The effects of party control on local fiscal policy in England

Benjamin Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli and James Rockey

Inequality, conspiracy theories, and redistribution

Daiki Kishishita

Can the middle class benefit from more conservative redistribution?

Darong Dai

Googling ‘inflation’: Household inflation attention across the euro area

Christian Buelens

Recovering history: Using the Nobel lectures to identify hidden women in economic thought

Darwyyn Deyo

Democratic engagement in the shadow of authoritarian repression: Evidence from Chile (2019–2023)

Armando N.G.L. Martins

The dynamics of revolutions

Moti Michaeli and Daniel Spiro

Strategic interdependence in sovereign lending

Jonas B. Bunte and Brandon J. Kinne

Public investment on health and voter responses: Evidence from the mass vaccination during COVID-19

Masaki Takahashi, Reo Takaku, Toyo Ashida and Yoko Ibuka

The “German Vote” and its consequences: (Un)reliable parties in multilateral bargaining under private information

David Piazolo

Do appointing institutions influence monetary policy? Evidence from voting patterns in the Polish Monetary Policy Council

Jan Fałkowski, Jacek Lewkowicz, Łukasz Hardt and Bartosz Słysz

Can term limits reduce political sabotage? Evidence from negative campaigning in gubernatorial races

Yizhaq Minchuk and Ohad Raveh

Short-term rental bans and the hotel industry: Evidence from New York city

Sebastian C. Anastasi, Alexander Marsella, Vitor Melo, E. Frank Stephenson and Gary A. Wagner

Leaders and institutions as joint determinants of economic growth

Xiangyu Shi

Greasing or Grinding? Regulatory context and the productivity effects of corruption: Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs

Chiara Tomasi, Quoc Thai Le and Thi Ngoc Lan Nguyen

Central bank independence and fiscal rule under populist leader's regime

Hoyong Jung

Fiscal federalism and Cohesion Policy in the European Union NUTS-2 regions

Simone Salotti, Pablo Casas, Tryfonas Christou, D’Apice, Pasquale, Abián García-Rodríguez and Nicholas Joseph Lazarou

A dictator’s retort to economic sanctions: Evidence from North Korea

Youngseok Park

Geopolitical spillover: The Russia–Ukraine invasion and its effects on money market funds

Vaibhav Keshav and Meghana Vaidya

The effect of increased women's legislative representation on women's well-being

Robin Grier, Kevin Grier and Florence Muhoza

Kicking the can down the road? A real-time data analysis of delayed fiscal consolidation

Bram Gootjes

Make it burn? Wildfires, disaster aid and presidential approval

Michael Berlemann, Marina Eurich and Timur Eckmann

Political connections and participation in global value chains: Evidence from MENA firms

Nora Aboushady and Chahir Zaki

Hawks and Doves: Financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine

Matthias Neuenkirch, Maria Repko and Enzo Weber

Approval vs. participation quorums

Dmitriy Vorobyev, Azamat Valei and Andrei Matveenko