Economics of Governance

2000 - 2025

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The impact of state intervention and bankruptcy authorization laws on local government deficits pp. 305-328: Lang Yang
Is it the gums, teeth or the bite? Effectiveness of dimensions of enforcement in curbing corruption pp. 329-369: Salvatore Capasso, Rajeev Goel and James Saunoris
Production inefficiency, cross-ownership and regional tax-range coordination pp. 371-388: Mutsumi Matsumoto
Does enfranchisement affect fiscal policy? Theory and empirical evidence on Brazil pp. 389-412: Rodrigo Schneider, Diloá Athias and Mauricio Bugarin

When the purchasing officer looks the other way: on the waste effects of debauched local environment in public works execution pp. 205-236: Calogero Guccio, Domenico Lisi and Ilde Rizzo
Economies of scale and governance of library systems: evidence from West Virginia pp. 237-253: Amir Borges Ferreira Neto and Joshua Hall
Political incentives in firms’ financial reporting: evidence from the crackdown on corrupt municipal officials pp. 255-284: Xiuhua Wang and Xi Gu
Intergroup inequality and the breakdown of prosociality pp. 285-303: Rustam Romaniuc, Gregory J. DeAngelo, Dimitri Dubois and Bryan McCannon

A test of the institutionally-induced equilibrium hypothesis: on the limited fiscal impact of two celebrity governors pp. 103-128: Roger Congleton and Yang Zhou
Expenditure visibility and voter memory: a compositional approach to the political budget cycle in Indian states, 1959–2012 pp. 129-157: J. Stephen Ferris and Bharatee Dash
Selection rates and bureaucratic performance pp. 159-181: Daniel Gibbs
Step-by-step group contests with group-specific public-good prizes pp. 183-204: Katsuya Kobayashi

Environmental policy efficiency: measurement and determinants pp. 1-22: Antonis Adam and Sofia Tsarsitalidou
The role of matching grants as a commitment device in the federation model with a repeated soft budget setting pp. 23-39: Nobuo Akai and Motohiro Sato
Corruption and paradoxes in alliances pp. 41-71: Ricardo Nieva
The state economic modernity index: an index of state building, state size and scope, and state economic power pp. 73-101: Ryan Murphy

The impact of political connections on government bailout: the 2008 credit crunch in the United States pp. 299-315: Seung-Hyun Lee, Mine Ozer and Yoon-Suk Baik
Governance of tax courts pp. 317-338: Roberto Ippoliti and Giovanni Ramello
Does participatory budgeting improve decentralized public service delivery? Experimental evidence from rural Russia pp. 339-379: Diether Beuermann and Maria Amelina
Camaraderie, common pool congestion, and the optimal size of surf gangs pp. 381-396: Franklin Mixon

Does the establishment of the Ministry of Environmental Protection matter for addressing China’s pollution problems? Empirical evidence from listed companies pp. 195-224: Guangdong Xu, Wenming Xu and Shudan Xu
Formal models of the political resource curse pp. 225-259: Desiree Desierto
Appeasement and compromise under a referendum threat pp. 261-283: Leyla D. Karakas
Private law enforcement with competing groups pp. 285-297: Ken Yahagi

Alternation of parties in power and economic volatility: testing the rational partisan hypothesis and policy learning hypothesis pp. 91-118: Steven Hall and Misa Nishikawa
Organized crime and public spending: a panel data analysis pp. 119-140: Maria Berrittella
The plough, gender roles, and corruption pp. 141-163: Gautam Hazarika
Ethnic divisions and the effect of appropriative competition intensity on economic performance pp. 165-193: Pierre Pecher

Economics of evaluation (with special reference to promotion and tenure committees) pp. 1-19: Tim Perri
The unintended impact of tax and expenditure limitations on the use of special districts: the politics of circumvention pp. 21-50: Pengju Zhang
The impact of public pension board of trustee composition on state bond ratings pp. 51-73: John Dove, Courtney A. Collins and Daniel Smith
Weekend racer: cheating and self-governance in road racing pp. 75-90: Leonid Krasnozhon and John Levendis

Political determinants of fiscal transparency: a panel data empirical investigation pp. 315-336: Lorenzo Cicatiello, Elina De Simone and Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta
Co-voting democracy pp. 337-349: Hans Gersbach
Party polarization, political alignment, and federal grant spending at the state level pp. 351-389: William Hankins, Gary Hoover and Paul Pecorino
Signal and political accountability: environmental petitions in China pp. 391-418: Jiankun Lu and Pi-Han Tsai

Local fiscal policy after a bailout: austerity or soft budget constraints? pp. 209-238: Thushyanthan Baskaran
Political regimes: a coalition formation approach pp. 239-273: Ahmed Saber Mahmud
Pareto-improving income redistribution: expanding consumer access to the vaccines market pp. 275-313: Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio

Economic freedom and public, non-market institutions: evidence from criminal prosecution pp. 107-128: Claudio Detotto and Bryan McCannon
Determinants of Public Service Broadcasting Size pp. 129-151: Saori Ihara and Yukihiro Yazaki
Within-group heterogeneity and civil war pp. 153-177: Nobuhiro Mizuno and Ryosuke Okazawa
Delegation of board work to committees in Europe pp. 179-208: Pablo de Andrés, Laura Arranz-Aperte and Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Sanz

Evolving corporate governance and firms performance: evidence from Japanese firms pp. 1-33: Wali Ullah
Democracy, rule of law, and corporate governance—a liquidity perspective pp. 35-70: Naiwei Chen and Tsai-Chen Yang
Certification and socially responsible production pp. 71-84: Alexander Cappelen and Tone Ognedal
Schools and public buildings in decay: the role of political fragmentation pp. 85-105: Lars-Erik Borge and Arnt O. Hopland

Endogenous party structure pp. 317-351: Katsuya Kobayashi and Hideo Konishi
Policies against human trafficking: the role of religion and political institutions pp. 353-386: Niklas Potrafke
Erratum to: Policies against human trafficking: the role of religion and political institutions pp. 387-396: Niklas Potrafke
Voice, exit and local capture in public provision of private goods pp. 397-424: Tugrul Gurgur

Unawareness and indifference to economic reform among the public: evidence from India’s power sector reform pp. 211-239: Chao-yo Cheng and Johannes Urpelainen
Do good institutions improve fiscal transparency? pp. 241-263: Nicoló Andreula and Alberto Chong
The impact of matching mission preferences on well-being at work pp. 295-315: Robin Zoutenbier

Corruption and anxiety in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 47-69: Robert Gillanders
A political-economy perspective on social expenditures: corruption and in-kind versus cash transfers pp. 71-100: Zohal Hessami and Silke Uebelmesser