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 70, issue C, 2021

Trust and punishment

Gonzalo Olcina and Vicente Calabuig

Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?

Jekaterina Kuliomina

Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy

Enrico Cantoni, Ludovica Gazzè and Jerome Schafer

Duration and competing-risks determinants of terrorist hostage-taking incidents

Wukki Kim and Todd Sandler

Territorial state capacity and elite violence from the 6th to the 19th century

Joerg Baten, Thomas Keywood and Georg Wamser

Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion

Yi Zhang and Chun Liu

Interest-rate setting and communication at the ECB in its first twenty years

Philippine Cour-Thimann and Alexander Jung

The Commission and the Council Presidency in the European Union: Strategic interactions and legislative powers

Philippe van Gruisen and Christophe Crombez

Rara Avis: Latin American populism in the 21st century

Luciano Campos and Agustin Casas

Can judicial efficiency improve territorial attractiveness to FDI? The Italian experience

Simona Comi, Mara Grasseni and Laura Resmini

Revisiting forced migration: A machine learning perspective

Maja Micevska

Can women's performance in elections determine the engagement of adolescent girls in politics?

Paulo Arvate, Sergio Firpo and Renan Pieri

Using Machine Learning for measuring democracy: A practitioners guide and a new updated dataset for 186 countries from 1919 to 2019

Klaus Gründler and Tommy Krieger

Inclusive institutions, unequal outcomes: Democracy, state capacity, and income inequality

Hector Bahamonde and Mart Trasberg

Delegation and the regulation of U.S. financial markets

Thomas Groll, O’Halloran, Sharyn and Geraldine McAllister

Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books

Heinrich Ursprung

Volume 69, issue C, 2021

The price of silence: Media competition, capture, and electoral accountability

Federico Trombetta and Domenico Rossignoli

Corporate tax competition: A meta-analysis

Philipp Heimberger

Strategic inefficiencies and federal redistribution during uncoordinated response to pandemic waves

Jacek Rothert

Political influence, central bank independence and inflation in Africa: A comparative analysis

Christine Olivia Strong

Illegal drugs and public corruption: Crack based evidence from California

Alessandro Flamini, Babak Jahanshahi and Kamiar Mohaddes

The effect of central government grants on local educational policy

Rune Borgan Reiling, Kari Vea Salvanes, Astrid Marie Sandsør and Bjarne Strøm

Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?

Durga Gautam

Tax evasion by tax deferment: Sham litigation with an informal credit market

Sugata Marjit, Suryaprakash Mishra and Sandip Mitra

Public debt rule breaking by time-inconsistent voters

Ryo Arawatari and Tetsuo Ono

Terrorism and international economic policy

Daniel Meierrieks and Friedrich Schneider

Too afraid to vote? The effects of COVID-19 on voting behaviour

Tania Fernandez-Navia, Eduardo Polo-Muro and David Tercero-Lucas

How does legislative behavior change when the country becomes democratic? The case of South Korea

Francesco Lagona and Fabio Padovano

Differences matter: The effect of coup types on physical integrity rights

Christian Bjørnskov and Katharina Pfaff

Political budget cycles revisited: Testing the signalling process

Israel García and Bernd Hayo

Anchored or de-anchored? That is the question

Francesco Corsello, Stefano Neri and Alex Tagliabracci

Explaining destinations and volumes of international arms transfers: A novel network Heckman selection model

Oliver Pamp, Michael Lebacher, Paul W. Thurner and Eva Ziegler

Volume 68, issue C, 2021

Do unhappy citizens vote for populism?

Adam Nowakowski

Zero per cent accountability? How low interest rates save governments from electoral defeats

Anton Brännlund

The political economy of IMF conditionality and central bank independence

Bernhard Reinsberg, Andreas Kern and Matthias Rau-Göhring

Government response to increased demand for public services: The cyclicality of government health expenditures in the OECD

Andrew Abbott and Philip Jones

Birthplace favoritism and the distribution of budget amendments in Brazil: Evidence from nondistrict elections

Enlinson Mattos, Ricardo Politi and Rodrigo Morata

Mandatory spending, political polarization, and macroeconomic volatility

Daryna Grechyna

Campaigning for retirement: State teacher union campaign contributions and pension generosity

Gary A. Wagner and Erick M. Elder

Vertical fiscal imbalance and local fiscal indiscipline: Empirical evidence from China

Junxue Jia, Yongzheng Liu, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Kewei Zhang

Grants-in-aid and election outcomes in recipient jurisdictions: The impact of EU funds on mayoral elections in Poland

Monika Banaszewska and Ivo Bischoff

How do electoral and voice accountability affect corruption? Experimental evidence from Egypt

Sarah Mansour, Sally Wallace, Vjollca Sadiraj and Mazen Hassan

Rank effect in bureaucrat recruitment

Carlos Guastavino, Alvaro Miranda and Rodrigo Montero

Political economy of taxation, debt ceilings, and growth

Yuki Uchida and Tetsuo Ono

Delegation in a multi-tier court system: Are remands in the U.S. federal courts driven by moral hazard?

Roee Sarel and Melanie Demirtas

Exposure to corruption and political participation: Evidence from Italian municipalities

Tommaso Giommoni

Foreign aid and the quality of economic institutions

Ratbek Dzhumashev and Abebe Hailemariam

Ambiguous protection

Klaus Gründler and Arye L. Hillman

Volume 67, issue C, 2021

The transition of corruption institutions and dynamics

Martin Paldam

Expressive voting with booing and cheering: Evidence from Britain

Javier Rivas and James Rockey

Complete information pivotal-voter model with asymmetric group size and asymmetric benefits

Christos Mavridis and Marco Serena

Politicians at higher levels of government are perceived as more corrupt

Abel François and Pierre-Guillaume Méon

Economic, social and political fragmentation: Linking knowledge-biased growth, identity, populism and protectionism

Dennis J. Snower and Steven Bosworth

Privacy rights in online interactions and litigation dynamics: A social custom view

Stefano Dughera and Marco Giraudo

Low-wage import competition and populist backlash: The case of Italy

Guglielmo Barone and Helena Kreuter

Attitudes towards euro area reforms: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Mathias Dolls and Nils Wehrhöfer

The influence of political fragmentation on public enterprises: Evidence from German municipalities

David Boll and Marcus Sidki

Autocrats in the United Nations General Assembly: A test of the decoy voting hypothesis

Martin Mosler

“The mother of all political problems”? On asylum seekers and elections

Lukas Tomberg, Karen Smith Stegen and Colin Vance

Trade in trash: A political economy approach

James Cassing and Ngo Long

Natural disasters and electoral outcomes

Giuliano Masiero and Michael Santarossa

Political openness and armed conflict: Evidence from local councils in Colombia

Hector Galindo-Silva

Regime security and taxation in autocracies: Who is taxed and how?

Marina Dodlova and Viola Lucas