European Journal of Political Economy

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Volume 26, issue 4, 2010

Expressive behavior in economics and politics pp. 403-418

Arye Hillman

Formal institutions and subjective well-being: Revisiting the cross-country evidence pp. 419-430

Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher and Justina A. V. Fischer

Immigration, fertility, and human capital: A model of economic decline of the West pp. 431-440

Leonid Azarnert

The determinants of tax morale in comparative perspective: Evidence from European countries pp. 441-453

Ignacio Lago and Santiago Lago-Peñas

Equilibrium migration with invested remittances: The EECA evidence pp. 454-474

Claire Naiditch and Radu Vranceanu

The political economy of capital market integration and tax competition pp. 475-487

Yu-Bong Lai

Do liberalization and globalization increase income inequality? pp. 488-505

Andreas Bergh and Therese Nilsson

Macroeconomic shocks, unionized labour markets and central bank disclosure policy: How beneficial is increased transparency? pp. 506-516

Jonathan G. James and Phillip Lawler

Government size, composition, volatility and economic growth pp. 517-532

Antonio Afonso and Davide Furceri

The median juror and the trial of Socrates pp. 533-540

Bryan McCannon

How quorum rules distort referendum outcomes: Evidence from a pivotal voter model pp. 541-557

Luís Aguiar-Conraria and Pedro C. Magalhães

Contests with private costs: Beyond two players pp. 558-567

Dmitry Ryvkin

EMU and the Greek crisis: The political-economy perspective pp. 568-576

Margarita Katsimi and Thomas Moutos

Volume 26, issue 3, 2010

Ethics and Economics pp. 293-293

Manfred J. Holler and Vesa Kanniainen

Interpersonal comparison in egalitarian societies pp. 294-301

Ken Binmore

What ethics can learn from experimental economics -- If anything pp. 302-310

Werner Güth and Hartmut Kliemt

Efficiency and justice revisited pp. 311-319

Manfred J. Holler and Martin Leroch

An evolutionary theory of social justice: Choosing the right game pp. 320-329

Luciano Andreozzi

On minimal morals pp. 330-339

Gebhard Kirchgässner

Firms' ethics, consumer boycotts, and signalling pp. 340-350

Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara

Honor among thieves: Cooperation as a strategic response to functional unpleasantness pp. 351-362

William B. Heller and Katri K. Sieberg

Corporate virtue: Treatment of whistle blowers and the punishment of violators pp. 363-371

Daniel Arce

Discounting and welfare analysis over time: Choosing the [eta] pp. 372-385

Wolfgang Buchholz and Jan Schumacher

An equity-efficiency trade-off in a geometric approach to committee selection pp. 386-391

Daniel Eckert and Christian Klamler

A new approach to procedural freedom in game forms pp. 392-402

Marlies Ahlert

Volume 26, issue 2, 2010

Fiscal decentralization and deficits: International evidence pp. 155-166

Bilin Neyapti

On the determinants of institutional design pp. 167-175

Theo van de Klundert

Pricing externalities pp. 176-184

T. Nicolaus Tideman and Florenz Plassmann

Electoral participation and communicative voting in Europe pp. 185-207

Francesco Sobbrio and Pietro Navarra

The political economy of investment: Sclerotic effects from interest groups pp. 208-221

Dennis Coates, Jac Heckelman and Bonnie Wilson

Grey power and public budgets: Family altruism helps children, but not the elderly pp. 222-234

Jorn Rattso and Rune J. Sørensen

Ageing municipalities, gerontocracy and fiscal competition pp. 235-247

Anna Montén and Marcel Thum

The political economy of fixed exchange rate regimes: The experience of post-communist countries pp. 248-264

Cristina Bodea

Voter involvement, fiscal autonomy and public sector efficiency: Evidence from German municipalities pp. 265-278

Benny Geys, Friedrich Heinemann and Alexander Kalb

Local economies and general elections: The influence of municipal and regional economic conditions on voting in Sweden 1985-2002 pp. 279-292

Mikael Elinder

Volume 26, issue 1, 2010

Why EMU is not a failure pp. 1-11

Hans Peter Grüner

Koizumi carried the day: Did the Japanese election results make people happy and unhappy? pp. 12-24

Yoshiro Tsutsui, Miles Kimball and Fumio Ohtake

Everyone is a winner: Promoting cooperation through all-can-win intergroup competition pp. 25-35

Ernesto Reuben and Jean-Robert Tyran

Minority vs. majority: An experimental study of standardized bids pp. 36-50

Ágnes Pintér and Róbert Veszteg

Socio-political conflict, social distance, and rent extraction in historical perspective pp. 51-67

M.-Christine Thaize Challier

Morality, institutions and the wealth of nations: Some lessons from ancient Greece pp. 68-81

George Bitros and Anastassios Karayiannis

Endemic corruption pp. 82-88

Nava Kahana and Liu Qijun

Social norms and conditional cooperative taxpayers pp. 89-103

Christian Traxler

Financing schemes for higher education pp. 104-113

Elena Del Rey and Maria Racionero

By-product lobbying with rival public goods pp. 114-124

Paul Pecorino

Pooling sovereignty under the subsidiary principle pp. 125-136

Michele Giuranno

The effects of age and job protection on the welfare costs of inflation and unemployment pp. 137-146

Leonardo Becchetti, Stefano Castriota and Osea Giuntella

Four critiques of the redistribution hypothesis: An assessment pp. 147-154

Branko Milanovic

Volume 25, issue 4, 2009

OPEC as a political and economical entity pp. 399-408

Franz Wirl

The distributive effects of institutional quality when government stability is endogenous pp. 409-421

Fabrizio Carmignani

Is NGO aid not so different after all? Comparing the allocation of Swiss aid by private and official donors pp. 422-438

Peter Nunnenkamp, Janina Weingarth and Johannes Weisser

Natural resource endowments and the domestic revenue effort pp. 439-446

Fabian Bornhorst, Sanjeev Gupta and John Thornton

The allocation of volatile aid and economic growth: Theory and evidence pp. 447-462

Kyriakos Neanidis and Dimitrios Varvarigos

Education policy and inequality: A political economy approach pp. 463-478

Debora Di Gioacchino and Laura Sabani

A contest model of liberalizing government procurements pp. 479-488

Ngo Long and Frank Stähler

Illegal trade in the Iranian economy: Evidence from a structural model pp. 489-507

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

Hitting and hoping?: Meeting the exchange rate and inflation criteria during a period of nominal convergence pp. 508-524

John Lewis

Deficit sustainability and inflation in EMU: An analysis from the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level pp. 525-539

Oscar Bajo-Rubio, Carmen Diaz-Roldan and Vicente Esteve

Speculative attacks and defenses as wars of attrition pp. 540-546

Kevin Grier and Shu Lin

Perceived inflation and the euro: Evidence from an Austrian survey pp. 547-561

Helmut Stix

Unproductive immigrants: A socially optimal policy for rational egalitarians pp. 562-566

Peter Nannestad

Norman Schofield, The spatial model of politics, Routledge Frontiers of Political Econonomy 95, Routledge, London and New York (2008) xxiii+296 pages pp. 567-568

Hannu Nurmi

Wilfred J. Ethier and Arye L. Hillman, Editors, The WTO and the Political Economy of Trade Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing (2008) 599 pp., including index, ISBN 978-1-84542-205-9 pp. 568-570

Wolfgang Mayer

Volume 25, issue 3, 2009

The social cost of rent seeking in Europe pp. 280-299

Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Apostolis Philippopoulos and Vanghelis Vassilatos

Common political culture: Evidence on regional corruption contagion pp. 300-310

Sascha Becker, Peter Egger and Tobias Seidel

Political institutions and economic volatility pp. 311-326

Jeroen Klomp and Jakob de Haan

The effects of lay participation in courts -- A cross-country analysis pp. 327-339

Stefan Voigt

A farewell to critical junctures: Sorting out long-run causality of income and democracy pp. 340-354

Erich Gundlach and Martin Paldam

Growing apart? A tale of two republics: Estonia and Georgia pp. 355-370

Thorvaldur Gylfason and Eduard Hochreiter

Government risk premiums in the bond market: EMU and Canada pp. 371-384

Ludger Schuknecht, Juergen von Hagen and Guido Wolswijk

Decentralization and electoral accountability: Incentives, separation and voter welfare pp. 385-397

Jean Hindriks and Ben Lockwood

Volume 25, issue 2, 2009

Financial market lobbies and pension reform pp. 163-173

Achim Kemmerling and Michael Neugart

Use and misuse of unemployment benefits for early retirement pp. 174-185

Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur and Pierre Pestieau

Women's representation and public spending pp. 186-198

Helena Svaleryd

Voting for mobile citizens pp. 199-207

Matthias Wrede

Dividends and politics pp. 208-224

Steven Bank, Brian Cheffins and Marc Goergen

Are the elderly a threat to educational expenditures? pp. 225-236

M. Alejandra Cattaneo and Stefan Wolter

Explaining Europeans' preferences for pension provision pp. 237-246

Bas van Groezen, Hannah Kiiver and Brigitte Unger

Contested water rights pp. 247-260

Erik Ansink and Hans-Peter Weikard

So many rocket scientists, so few marketing clerks: Estimating the effects of economic reform on occupational mobility in Estonia pp. 261-275

Nauro Campos and Aurelijus Dabusinskas

Judith Clifton, Francisco Comn and Daniel Diz-Fuentes, Editors, Transforming Public Enterprise in Europe and North America, Palgrave, Basingstoke (2007) pp. 276-276

Andrea Goldstein

Volume 25, issue 1, 2009

On the measurement of political instability and its impact on economic growth pp. 15-29

Richard Jong-A-Pin

The quality of institutions and satisfaction with democracy in Western Europe -- A panel analysis pp. 30-41

Alexander Wagner, Friedrich Schneider and Martin Halla

Modelling the composition of government expenditure in democracies pp. 42-55

John Creedy and Solmaz Moslehi

Voting on the choice of core languages in the European Union pp. 56-62

Jan Fidrmuc, Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber

Democracy, elections and allocation of public expenditures in developing countries pp. 63-77

Clémence Vergne

Cultural differences between Tibetans and ethnic Han Chinese in ultimatum bargaining experiments pp. 78-84

Kang Chen and Fang-Fang Tang

The design of an asymmetric currency union with shock persistence and spillovers: Short-term versus medium-term pp. 85-97

Rainer Frey

Is a unified macroeconomic policy necessarily better for a common currency area? pp. 98-101

Ansgar Belke and Daniel Gros

Efficient mercantilism? Revenue-maximizing monopoly policies as Ramsey taxation pp. 102-114

Roger Congleton and Sanghack Lee

Are fiscal adjustments less successful in decentralized governments? pp. 115-123

Christoph Schaltegger and Lars Feld

The political economy of the subprime crisis: Why subprime was so attractive to its creators pp. 124-132

Peter Swan

The future of fiscal federalism and the need for global government: A response to Vito Tanzi pp. 133-136

Roland Vaubel

The future of fiscal federalism and the need for global government: A reply to Roland Vaubel pp. 137-139

Vito Tanzi