European Journal of Political Economy

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Volume 24, issue 4, 2008

Central bank independence and monetary policymaking institutions -- Past, present and future pp. 722-736

Alex Cukierman

The conservative central banker revisited: Too conservative is more costly than too liberal pp. 737-741

Peter Tillmann

The trade-off between central bank independence and conservatism in a New Keynesian framework pp. 742-747

Sylvester Eijffinger and Marco Hoeberichts

Goal independent central banks: Why politicians decide to delegate pp. 748-762

Christopher Crowe

Central bank independence and transparency: Evolution and effectiveness pp. 763-777

Christopher Crowe and Ellen Meade

Does high inflation cause central bankers to lose their job? Evidence based on a new data set pp. 778-787

Axel Dreher, Jan-Egbert Sturm and Jakob de Haan

Is there any link between legal central bank independence and inflation? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 788-801

Luis Jácome and Francisco Vazquez

No single definition of central bank independence is right for all countries pp. 802-816

Pierre Siklos

Central bank boards around the world: Why does membership size differ? pp. 817-832

Helge Berger, Volker Nitsch and Tonny Lybek

Inside and outside the central bank: Independence and accountability in financial supervision: Trends and determinants pp. 833-848

Donato Masciandaro, Marc Quintyn and Michael Taylor

Volume 24, issue 3, 2008

Enduring rents pp. 545-553

Toke Aidt and Arye Hillman

Coalition governments in a model of parliamentary democracy pp. 554-561

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Mandar Oak

Fiscal federalism and the composition of public investment in Europe pp. 562-570

Andreas Kappeler and Timo Valila

Welfare effects of the euro cash changeover pp. 571-586

Christoph Wunder, Johannes Schwarze, Gerhard Krug and Bodo Herzog

Unemployment accounts and employment incentives pp. 587-604

Alessio Brown, J. Michael Orszag and Dennis Snower

Vicious and virtuous circles -- The political economy of unemployment in interwar UK and USA pp. 605-614

Kent Matthews, A. Patrick Minford and Ruthira Naraidoo

Legal competition, political process and irreversible investment decisions pp. 615-627

Bruno Deffains and Dominique Demougin

Voting about immigration policy: What does the Swiss experience tell us? pp. 628-641

Florence Miguet Heimlicher

The effect of economic freedom on growth revisited: New evidence on causality from a panel of countries 1970-1999 pp. 642-660

Mogens K. Justesen

Motivation for bilateral aid allocation: Altruism or trade benefits pp. 661-674

Javed Younas

Federalism, separatism and international trade pp. 675-687

Marie Daumal

The welfare consequences of strategic behaviour under approval and plurality voting pp. 688-704

Aki Lehtinen

The future of fiscal federalism pp. 705-712

Vito Tanzi

D.A. Walker, Walrasian Economics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York (2006) ISBN-13: 978-0-521-85855-7 pp. 713-715

Ezra Davar

Volume 24, issue 2, 2008

Searching for Keynesianism pp. 294-316

Stanley Winer and J. Stephen Ferris

Redistributing income under fiscal vertical imbalance pp. 317-328

Laurent Bouton, Marjorie Gassner and Vincenzo Verardi

How the left prospers from prosperity pp. 329-342

Simen Markussen

Darwin's unpublished letter at the Bradlaugh-Besant trial: A question of divided expert judgment pp. 343-353

Sandra J. Peart and David Levy

Leisure and redistribution pp. 354-363

Roland Hodler

Refinancing Europe's higher education through deferred and income-contingent fees: An empirical assessmentusing Belgian, German & UK data pp. 364-386

Vincent Vandenberghe and Olivier Debande

Politics of social health insurance pp. 387-401

Stéphane Rossignol

Selecting health care providers: "Any willing provider" vs. negotiation pp. 402-414

Pedro Barros and Xavier Martinez-Giralt

On cheating, doping and whistleblowing pp. 415-436

Aleksander Berentsen, Esther Bruegger and Simon Loertscher

Competition as a coordination device: Experimental evidence from a minimum effort coordination game pp. 437-454

Thomas Riechmann and Joachim Weimann

It is a theft but not a crime pp. 455-469

Alessandro Balestrino

Party cues and yardstick voting pp. 470-477

Benny Geys and Jan Vermeir

Did work-sharing work in France? Evidence from a structural co-integrated VAR model pp. 478-490

Sven Schreiber

Is there a role for macroeconomic policy in fostering structural reforms? Panel evidence from OECD countries over the past two decades pp. 491-502

Romain Duval

Influential price and wage setters, monetary policy and real effects pp. 503-517

George Bratsiotis

Determinants of foreign direct investment in services pp. 518-533

Ivar Kolstad and Espen Villanger

Helping Countries Develop: The Role of Fiscal Policy, Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, Gabriela Inchauste (Eds.), International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C. (2004) xi + 528 pp pp. 534-538

Abuzer Pinar

Public choice still young and going strong at the age of 60! pp. 538-543

George Tridimas

Volume 24, issue 1, 2008

Does community property discourage unpartnered births? pp. 25-40

Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard

The Eurovision Song Contest. Is voting political or cultural? pp. 41-52

Victor Ginsburgh and Abdul Noury

The political economy of investment: The case of pollution control technology pp. 53-72

Per Fredriksson and Jim Wollscheid

The triumph of Christianity in the Roman empire: An economic interpretation pp. 73-87

Mario Ferrero

The impact of policy reversal on economic performance in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 88-106

Milton Yago and Wyn Morgan

Money or joy: The choice of educational type pp. 107-122

Alstadsí¦ter, Annette, Ann-Sofie Kolm and Birthe Larsen

Allocation of prizes in asymmetric all-pay auctions pp. 123-132

Chen Cohen and Aner Sela

Heterogeneous groups and rent-seeking for public goods pp. 133-150

Guillaume Cheikbossian

Foreign investment, international trade and the size and structure of public expenditures pp. 151-171

Norman Gemmell, Richard Kneller and Ismael Sanz

Public finances and long-term growth in Europe: Evidence from a panel data analysis pp. 172-191

Diego Romero-Ávila and Rolf Strauch

Predicting the macroeconomic effects of abstract and concrete events pp. 192-201

Michael Roos

Unemployment, taxation and public expenditure in OECD economies pp. 202-217

Rafael Domenech and Garcí­a, José Ramón

Product market competition, investment and employment-abundant versus job-poor growth: A real options perspective pp. 218-238

Yu-Fu Chen and Michael Funke

Are independent central banks really as conservative as they like to pretend? pp. 239-248

Andrew Hughes Hallett

Redistributive taxation, multinational enterprises, and economic integration pp. 249-255

Andreas Haufler, Alexander Klemm and Guttorm Schjelderup

Estimating the impact of gubernatorial partisanship on policy settings and economic outcomes: A regression discontinuity approach pp. 256-268

Andrew Leigh

Majority voting may not rule (in monetary unions): A comment on Matsen and Røisland [Eur. J. Political Economy 21 (2005) 365-384] pp. 269-279

Pierre-Guillaume Méon

Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd and Ernst Fehr, Editors, Moral Sentiments and Material Interests, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2005) ISBN-10: 0-262-07252-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-07252-6 xii+404, pages, Hardcover, US$55/[lira]35.95 pp. 280-281

Ananish Chaudhuri

Jonathan Rodden, Hamilton's Paradox: The Promise and Peril of Fiscal Federalism, Cambridge University Press (2006) pp. 281-282

Jorn Rattso