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 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 G. 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 L. Winer

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

Sourav Das, Patrick Hufschmidt, Fabian Mankat and Konstantinos Theocharopoulos

Volume 91, issue C, 2026

Do fiscal rules undermine public investments? A review of empirical evidence

Sebastian Blesse, Luisa Dörr, Florian Dorn and Max Lay

Assessing the joint risks of fiscal crises and climate change

Jorge Uribe and Helena Chuliá

Tax centralization, political connections, and corporate tax avoidance

Yang Pan and Xihao Wu

When does state capacity Work? Social fragmentation and public goods provision in rural Japan

Jiali Shen

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 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 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 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