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 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 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

Volume 82, issue C, 2024

“Whatever It Takes!” How tonality of TV-news affected government bond yield spreads during the European debt crisis

Patrick Hirsch, Lars Feld, Ekkehard Köhler and Tobias Thomas

Subnational public debt sustainability in Mexico: Is the new fiscal rule working?

Ernesto del Castillo and René Cabral

Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy

Liliana Cuccu and Nicola Pontarollo

Governments manipulate official Statistics: Institutions matter

Andre Briviba, Bruno Frey, Louis Moser and Sandro Bieri

Don’t blame the government!? An assessment of debt forecast errors with a view to the EU Economic Governance Review

Alena Bachleitner and Doris Prammer

Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*

Bernard Hoekman and Bedri Kamil Onur Taş

Contest and resource allocation: An experimental analysis of entitlement and self-selection effects

Katarína Čellárová and Rostislav Stanek

Why do voters elect criminal politicians?

Abhinav Khemka

Will the real populists please stand up? A machine learning index of party populism

Andrea Celico, Martin Rode and Ignacio Rodriguez-Carreño

Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve

Christian Bjørnskov

Transitive delegation in social networks: Theory and experiment

Sang-Hyun Kim

Volume 81, issue C, 2024

Is Populism reversible? Evidence from Italian local elections during the pandemic

Massimo Bordignon, Federico Franzoni and Matteo Gamalerio

Making monetary policy in Poland: Are Polish hawks and doves different?

Ryszard Kokoszczyński and Joanna Mackiewicz-Łyziak

Farewell President! Political favoritism, economic inequality, and political polarization

Hui-Pei Cheng and Eik Swee

Early warning models for systemic banking crises: Can political indicators improve prediction?

Tran Huynh and Silke Uebelmesser

Political budget cycle and the alignment effect: Evidence from South Korea

Dongwon Lee, Sujin Min and Sangwon Park

Dominance and technology war

Kai Konrad

Well-being foundations of populism in Europe

Rui Silva

Social trust and the support for universal basic income

Michele Gubello

Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic

Franziska Gassmann and Eszter Timár

Women’s voice on redistribution: From gender equality to equalizing taxation

Monica Bozzano, Paola Profeta, Riccardo Puglisi and Simona Scabrosetti

Transition to broader-based politics: The role of suffrage extension in early 20th century Japan

Shuhei Kainuma

Chinese aid in Africa: Attitudes and conflict

Sulin Sardoschau and Alexandra Jarotschkin

Fiscal rules to the test: The impact of the Spanish expenditure rule

Ana Herrero-Alcalde, Javier Martín-Román, José Manuel Tránchez-Martín and Ignacio Moral-Arce

District versus at-large voting: Why district voting results in worse policy for minorities

Donald Wittman

Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations

Philip Keefer and Razvan Vlaicu

Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China

Chang Xue and Xiaoyu Zhang

Alternatives to plurality rule for single-winner elections: When do they make a difference?

Romain Lachat and Jean-François Laslier

Procurement cartels and the fight against (outsider) bribing

Roberto Burguet, Elisabetta Iossa and Giancarlo Spagnolo

Empowering the next generation: The role of direct democracy in youth enfranchisement

Anna Maria Koukal, Patricia Schafer and Reiner Eichenberger