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 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

Volume 80, issue C, 2023

Kinship ties and female political participation: The case of Philippine mayors

Charles Irvin S. Siriban

Political competition in dynamic economies

Sondre Ulvund Solstad

How does expropriation affect FDI? A synthetic control analysis of oil and gas sector nationalizations in South America

Bernd Lucke and Erik Rehfeldt

Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success

Benoit Crutzen and Sabine Flamand

Households’ inflation expectations and concern about climate change

Christoph Meinerding, Andrea Poinelli and Yves Schüler

The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America

Samuel Absher, Robin Grier and Kevin Grier

Can health passport overcome political hurdles to COVID-19 vaccination?

Abel François, Olivier Gergaud and Abdul Noury

Television market size and political accountability in the U.S. House of Representatives

Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter and Alois Stutzer

Do immigrants ever oppose immigration?

Aflatun Kaeser and Max Tani

The value of a party: Local politics and the allocation of intergovernmental transfers

Matthias Quinckhardt

The causal effect of regulation on income inequality across the U.S. states

Sanchari Choudhury

Divided government, polarization, and policy: Regression-discontinuity evidence from US states

Luca Repetto and Maximiliano Sosa Andrés

Political referenda and investment: Evidence from Scotland

Andres Azqueta-Gavaldon

Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method

Wisarut Suwanprasert

Pension reform preferences in Germany: Does information matter?

Jana Schuetz, Silke Uebelmesser, Ronja Baginski and Carmela Aprea

Fiscal decentralization and structural versus cyclical unemployment levels

Benard Akalbeo, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Bauyrzhan Yedgenov

The distributional impact of local banking. Evidence from the financial and sovereign-debt crises

Valentina Peruzzi, Pierluigi Murro and Stefano Di Colli

Opportunistic privatization

Vladan Ivanović, Luca J. Uberti and Drini Imami

Should Italy switch to a flat tax? An assessment based on a heterogeneous agents OLG model

Alessandro Sommacal

Volume 79, issue C, 2023

Assessing policy co-ordination in government: Text and network analysis of the UK's economic strategies

Diane Coyle and Adam Muhtar

Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage

Mélyne Nzabonimpa

Openness and the welfare state: risk and income effects in protection without protectionism

Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud and Karl Ove Moene

Choosing not to lead: Monetary incentives and political selection in local parliamentary systems

Andrea Caria, Fabio Cerina and Marco Nieddu

Fiscal rules and the reliability of public investment plans: Evidence from local governments

Anna Laura Mancini and Pietro Tommasino

The rate of discount on public investments with future bias in an altruistic overlapping generations model

Toshiki Tamai

Influence of political movement on fields of study: Evidence from Hong Kong

Yonghong Zhou

Intergovernmental grants and local public finance: An empirical examination in Israel

Ron Shani, Yaniv Reingewertz and Eran Vigoda-Gadot

The revolving door of former civil servants and firm value: A comprehensive approach

Noam Michelson

Defending election victory by attacking company revenues: The impact of elections on the international defense industry

Jeroen Klomp

You reap what you know: Appropriability and the origin of European states

Thilo Rene Huning and Fabian Wahl

The elite, inequality and the emergence of progressive taxation

Vicente Calabuig and Gonzalo Olcina

Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?

Gerard van der Meijden, Hassan Benchekroun, Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Cees Withagen

Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Muhammad Habibur Rahman and Mehmet Ulubasoglu

Political monetary cycles: An empirical study

Hugo Oriola

Democratic institutions and regulatory privileges for government debt

Timm Betz and Amy Pond

Reputation and perverse transparency under two concerns

Ascension Andina-Diaz and José A. García-Martínez

Does ethnic heterogeneity decrease workers’ effort in the presence of income redistribution? An experimental analysis

Christoph A. Schütt, David Pipke, Lena Detlefsen and Gianluca Grimalda

Corruption, scandals and incompetence: Do voters care?

Harm Rienks

Defector Politicians and Economic Growth: Evidence from India

Karan Makkar

A spatial analysis of local corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Chinese cities

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

The heterogeneous effects of internet voting

Alberto Ciancio and Fabrice Kampfen

Comparative politics with intraparty candidate selection

Benoit Crutzen and Nicolas Sahuguet

The effect of populism on high-skilled migration: Evidence from inventors

Wei-Fong Pan

Economic freedom and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation model with individual autonomy and national culture

Johan Graafland

Consistent flexibility: Enforcement of deficit rules through political incentives

Valerio Dotti and Eckhard Janeba

Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?

Bernd Hayo and Stefan Voigt