European Journal of Political Economy

1985 - 2026

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

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Volume 93, issue C, 2026

Effects of selective conscription on the labour market and education: Evidence from Sweden

Daniel Almén

Women in office: The impact of female politicians on gender-based violence reporting

Veronica Frisancho, Evi Pappa, Camila Ramírez and Chiara Santantonio

Term limits and corruption: Evidence from U.S. states

Yacov Tsur

The euro as an institutionally diverse monetary union

Enrico Perotti and Oscar Soons

Friend-shoring, near-shoring, and reshoring in factories America, Asia, and Europe amid rising geopolitical tensions

Mitsuyo Ando, Kazunobu Hayakawa, Fukunari Kimura and Hiroshi Mukunoki

Bank–public sector cooperation in the Vienna Initiative: Addressing the collective action problem through “reverse orchestration”

Masafumi Fujita and Haewon Youn

Attribution of responsibility for corrupt decisions

Maria Montero, Alex Possajennikov and Yuliet Verbel

Land invasions and contemporary slavery

Gabriel Cepaluni, Jamil Civitarese and Michael T. Dorsch

Political competition, party structure and economic growth: Theory and evidence from Indian states

J.Stephen Ferris and Bharatee Bhusana Dash

Is local opposition taking the wind out of the energy transition?

Federica Daniele, Guido de Blasio and Alessandra Pasquini

Decomposing migration drivers: Push-pull effects of political, financial, and socioeconomic institutions versus network effects in OECD migration

Yun Wang

Political budget cycles in federal systems: The case of India

Sourav Das, Patrick Hufschmidt, Fabian Mankat and Konstantinos Theocharopoulos

Media narratives and public attitudes toward immigrants and muslims: Evidence from the charlie hebdo attack

Mamadou Sacko

Decoding discourse: Gendered heckling in German Bundestag debates (1949–2021)

Teresa Hailer-Röthel

The Governor’s Gambit: Does government-business communication move private capital?

Shaowen Shu, Yinghao Pan, Hao Liu and Jingxian Zou

Does fiscal autonomy increase local income? Evidence from Italy

Massimiliano Ferraresi, Benedikt Herrmann, Luisa Loiacono, Leonzio Rizzo and Riccardo Secomandi

Effects of council size under a majority bonus: Evidence from French municipalities

Benoît Le Maux, Mara Vidali and Pauline Mille

All that legislates is not gold: Representation and redistribution in Chile

Camila Contreras and Alejandro Corvalan

Government size, economic freedom, and homicide rates: A cross-National analysis of 74 countries

Junghi Ha

The stabilizing effect of elected women and political seniority

Antonio Acconcia and Carla Ronza

The beauty premium in politics? Perceptions and political behavior

Ahmed Skali, Steve Bickley, Ho Fai Chan, David Stadelmann, Benno Torgler and Stephen Whyte

Playing the stationary bandit: State size and the strategies of fiscal extraction

Xinhong Huang

Economic growth and imperialism

Giacomo Corneo

Distance matters: Geographical proximity and fiscal rules enforcement

Désirée Christofzik and Oliver Märtz

Rationalizing protests – From individuals to networks

Tim Baule, Jonathan Bothner and Maximilian Kähny

The Zelensky moment: Investments in the defense industry and geopolitical risk awareness of European investors

Martijn Boermans, Rients Galema, Auke Plantinga and Bert Scholtens

What drives pro-EU preferences? Territorial identities, immigration and redistribution attitudes

Ingrid Mauerer, Andrea Pili and M. Socorro Puy

Female enfranchisement and the conservative voting gap: Evidence from gender-separated precinct returns

Mathias Bühler and Navid Sabet

Do individuals prefer stricter supply chain laws? Empirical evidence from Germany

Daniel Engler, Marvin Gleue, Gunnar Gutsche, Gerrit Hornung, Sophia Möller, Sabrina Schomberg and Andreas Ziegler

Rulers’ agents: Localism of law enforcement leaders and the patterns of trade

Chang Li, Huanhuan Wang and Chang Xue

Help-seeking after gender-based violence: The role of local female political representation

Pasquale Giacobbe, Andrea Mosca, Patrizia Ordine and Giuseppe Rose

The Carnation Revolution and economic crisis: A synthetic control analysis (1974-2000)

Luciano Amaral, Bruno Lopes Marques and João Pereira dos Santos

Legislative populism, ideological alignment, and human freedom

Christian Bjørnskov and Niclas Berggren

Globalisation and political trust: Evidence of a nuanced relationship

Jacek Lewkowicz, Jan Fałkowski and Christian Bjørnskov

Political accountability with endogenous party formation

Kurt Annen and Simon Hug

The stock market effects of Islamist versus non-Islamist terror

Gan Jin, Md Rafiul Karim and Günther G. Schulze

Residential housing investment and local corruption: Empirical evidence from the Chinese housing market

Yao-Yu Chih, Firat Demir, Chenghao Hu, Junyi Liu and Hewei Shen

Crafting compliance – The role of inclusion and participation in constitution-making

Tim Schnelle

Trading budget deficits for public investment: Optimal deficit rules for present-biased governments

Tobias Bergmann and Nikolaj Moretti

Volume 92, issue C, 2026

Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach

Hamzeh Arabzadeh

The impact of independent local parties on spending: Evidence from Dutch municipalities

Marianna Sebő, Raymond Gradus and Tjerk Budding

Re-election incentives and the adoption of early childhood development programmes: The case of the "Happy Child" Programme in Brazil

Raquel Tebaldi, Franziska Gassmann and Bruno Martorano

Should you want an educated mayor? Evidence from close elections in Italy

Alessio Mitra

The Lernaean Hydra of populism

Anastasia Kafe, Vassilis Logothetis and Vassilis Sarantides

Identity, social media and online political activism

Swaraj Kumar Dey and Shubhasis Dey

Strategic voting on tax policy: Direct vs representative democracy in the laboratory

Giuseppe Di Liddo, Michele Giuranno and Andrea Morone

Electoral corruption cycles: Separating perceptions and experiences across households and experts

Lamar Crombach

Why new parties (must) make excessive campaign pledges

Giulio Piccirilli

Rules alone won't do: Empirical evidence on sanction mechanisms of fiscal rules and political budget cycles

Lukas Mair and Martin Mosler

Democracy as a competitive discovery process

Nick Cowen, Eric Schliesser and Aris Trantidis

Municipal electoral competition and the economic condition of households: Evidence from the slums of Kolkata

Indranil De and Vidhya Unnikrishnan

Electoral plutocracy

Raul Magni-Berton and Simon Varaine

What happens to renters? Increased financing costs and government support

Hannah Loeffler

Electoral democracy, corruption, and tax evasion

Elvina Merkaj and Drini Imami

To act or not to Act? Political competition under different types of backward-looking voters

Arthur Fishman and Doron Klunover

Reprint of: Presidential versus parliamentary: Political system and stock market volatility

Yosef Bonaparte

Corruption and reforms: Are liberal democracies different?

Jeffry Jacob, Thomas Osang and Luigi Manzetti

Redistributive promises, transfers to special interests, and the political economy of reform with limited state capacity

Sanjay Jain and Sumon Majumdar

Political competition and its consequences: Introduction and overview

Frank Bohn and Stanley Winer

Reprint of: Political budget cycles in federal systems: The case of India

Sourav Das, Patrick Hufschmidt, Fabian Mankat and Konstantinos Theocharopoulos