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 88, issue C, 2025

Kin-based institutions and state capacity

Roberto Ezcurra

Lady Justice: The impact of female judges on jury trial verdicts in North Carolina

Alessandra Foresta

Assessing the efficacy of China's anti-corruption drive: Insights from consumer expenditure patterns

Zhengang Xu

Doom loop, trilemma, and moral hazard: Which narrative of the banking union did stock market investors buy?

Tobias Körner and Michael Papageorgiou

Capital vs. labour: The effect of income sources on attitudes toward the top 1 percent

Oscar Barrera-Rodríguez and Emmanuel Chávez

Social media campaigning and voter behavior–evidence for the German federal election 2021

Abeer Ibtisam Aziz and Ivo Bischoff

Spend on what? Insights on military spending efficiency

Dimitrios Dimitriou, Eleftherios Goulas and Christos Kallandranis

State building and social control

Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein

Volume 87, issue C, 2025

Politics in the facebook era. Evidence from the 2016 US presidential elections

Federica Liberini, Michela Redoano, Antonio Russo, Angel Cuevas and Ruben Cuevas

Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany

Ivo Bischoff, Sourav Das and Reinhold Kosfeld

Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China

Margot Belguise, Nora Yuqian Chen, Yuchen Huang and Zhexun Mo

Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China

Jiajun Han and Yuan Zhang

How do local governments and housing markets respond to demographic information shocks? Evidence from Japan’s Extinction Risk List

Shinya Inukai

Fiscal policy preferences: Evidence from conjoint experiments in Poland

Jakub Bartak, Łukasz Jabłoński and Katarzyna Obłąkowska

Social mobility and political stability

Weicheng Lyu

Weapons and influence: Unpacking the impact of Chinese arms exports on the UNGA voting alignment

Xiaoyu He, Yawen Zheng and Yiwen Chen

Random walks into democracy and back: The case against causal explanations of democratization

Thomas Apolte

How central bank independence shapes monetary policy communication: A Large Language Model application

Lauren Leek and Simeon Bischl

Political parties’ ideological bias and convergence in economic outcomes

Zeeshan Hashim, Jan Fidrmuc and Sugata Ghosh

Heterogeneity of institutions and model uncertainty in the income inequality nexus

Pinar Deniz and Thanasis Stengos

Do large, sustained economic freedom reforms hurt or improve women's economic rights?

Tibor Rutar

Starting young: How age limits shape political participation

Chloe Nibourel and Mattias Folkestad

Social welfare and the group size paradox

Paul Pecorino

Presidential versus parliamentary: Political system and stock market volatility

Yosef Bonaparte

Rule of law and economic performance: A meta-regression analysis

Egnate Shamugia

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 Romocea 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 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 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 85, issue C, 2024

Clearing the smog ceiling: The impact of women’s political empowerment on air quality in European regions

Vicente Rios, Izaskun Barba, Lisa Gianmoena and Pedro Pascual

Priming attitudes toward immigrants: Implications for migration research and survey design

Patrick Dylong, Paul Setzepfand and Silke Uebelmesser

The political economy of education: Politician criminality and higher education institutions

Rolly Kukreja

Overestimation of social security payments reduces preferences for spending on social policy

Alexei Zakharov

Information effects in public spending preferences: Evidence from survey experiment in Poland

Jakub Sawulski, Nikodem Szewczyk and Aneta Kiełczewska

Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation

Li Yang, Branko Milanovic and Yaoqi Lin

Corrigendum to “Defector politicians and economic growth: Evidence from India” [Eur. J. Polit. Econ. 79 (2023) 102442]

Karan Makkar

Economic sanctions and sovereign debt default

Ablam Estel Apeti and Eyah Denise Edoh

Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions: Evidence from Indonesia's election reform

Ridho Al Izzati, Teguh Dartanto, Daniel Suryadarma and Asep Suryahadi

Political institutions and output collapses

Patrick Imam and Jonathan Temple

Geopolitical shocks and commodity market dynamics: New evidence from the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Joshua Aizenman, Robert Lindahl, David Stenvall and Gazi Salah Uddin

Voters’ influence on local tax policy

Maarten Allers and Harm Rienks

Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes

Sean P. Alvarez, Vincent Geloso and Macy Scheck

(Mis-)Perceptions, information, and political polarization: A survey and a systematic literature review

Maria Marino, Roberto Iacono and Johanna Mollerstrom

Broadband internet and attitudes toward migrants: Evidence from Spain

Marta Golin and Alessio Romarri

Equilibrium communication in political scandals

Bence Hamrak, Gabor Simonovits and Ferenc Szucs

Electoral quotas and developmental outcomes: Evidence from India

Shampa Bhattacharjee and Arka Roy Chaudhuri

One money, one voice? Evaluating ideological positions of euro area central banks

Martin Feldkircher, Paul Hofmarcher and Pierre L. Siklos

Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve

Daniel McDowell and David A. Steinberg

How does implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) affect economic growth? Evidence from developing countries

Neerbewendé Abdoul Rachid Pafadnam

Geopolitical risks and business fluctuations in Europe: A sectorial analysis

Fredj Jawadi, Philippe Rozin, Yacouba Gnegne and Abdoulkarim Idi Cheffou

Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission

Maximilian W. Dirks and Torsten Schmidt

Political uncertainty and revenue sharing in international contracting

Yi Zhang, Hein Roelfsema and Chun Liu

Predicting scandal

Slade Mendenhall and Joshua Ingber

Electoral incentives to target investment in roads: Evidence from Italian municipalities

Massimiliano Ferraresi, Leonzio Rizzo and Riccardo Secomandi

Globalization and fiscal policy after financial crises

Paraskevi Salamaliki

Fiscal rules and economic cycles: Quality (always) Matters

Leandro Andrian, Jorge Hirs-Garzon, Ivan Urrea-Rios and Oscar Valencia

Trust in a national anti-corruption agency: A survey experiment among citizens and experts

Benjamin Monnery and Alexandre Chirat

Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy

Daniel Graeber, Lorenz Meister and Panu Poutvaara

Fiscal rules, capital controls, and cross-border financial integration

Nour-eddine Ech-charfi

The value of national defense: Assessing public preferences for defense policy options

Salmai Qari, Tobias Börger, Tim Lohse and Jürgen Meyerhoff

Explaining the stringency of environmental policies: Domestic determinants or international policy coordination?

Isabelle Cadoret and Fabio Padovano

Self-benefits, fiscal risk, and political support for the public healthcare system

Daiki Kishishita and Tomoko Matsumoto

Breaking the silence: The effects of online social movements on gender-based violence

Michele Battisti, Ilpo Kauppinen and Britta Rude

When citizens legalize drugs

Elena Lucchese and Paolo Roberti

The grass is always greener on the other side: (Unfair) inequality and support for democracy

Fabian Reutzel

Support for temporary protection of displaced populations in the EU: A conjoint experiment

Michal Krawczyk, Andrea Blasco, Tomasz Gajderowicz and Marek Giergiczny

Modeling the presidential approval ratings of the United States using machine-learning: Does climate policy uncertainty matter?

Elie Bouri, Rangan Gupta and Christian Pierdzioch

The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes

Bernd Hayo and Duncan H.W. Roth

Macroeconomic effects from media coverage of the China–U.S. trade war on selected EU countries

Joscha Beckmann, Robert Czudaj and Michael Murach

Political alliances and trade: Europe in a polarized world

Karen Jackson and Oleksandr Shepotylo

Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion

Giulia Savio

The evolution of affluent support for redistribution in Germany in the context of rising inequalities

Bilal El Rafhi and Thibault Darcillon

Wealth inequality and mega events

Denis Ivanov and Gaygysyz Ashyrov

Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation

Thomas Däubler and Lukáš Linek