European Journal of Political Economy

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Political Economy is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The political economy of international conflict and cooperation: A special issue in honor of Heinrich W. Ursprung46
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights38
Editorial Board37
Political tenure, term limits and corruption35
Anchored or de-anchored? That is the question34
Rewarding good political behavior: US aid, democracy, and human rights28
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China28
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy26
Strategic inefficiencies and federal redistribution during uncoordinated response to pandemic waves24
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?24
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks23
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam23
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus22
The price of silence: Media competition, capture, and electoral accountability22
Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage22
Don't shoot yourself in the foot! A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution and voting21
Regulation and income inequality in the United States21
Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?20
Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion20
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy20
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout19
Inequality aversion and government health expenditure18
Editorial Board18
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?17
Grants-in-aid and election outcomes in recipient jurisdictions: The impact of EU funds on mayoral elections in Poland17
Democracy favors access to credit of firms16
Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission16
Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*15
Geopolitical risk and stock prices15
Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?14
Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China14
Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic14
Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy14
Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China14
When citizens legalize drugs14
Editorial Board14
Editorial Board13
The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes13
The effect of ethnic diversity on the participation in social groups: Evidence from trade unions12
When do more selfish politicians manipulate less, not more?12
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions12
Stock markets and economic uncertainty: Roles of legislative sessions and coalition strength12
Political polarization and international cooperation11
Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve11
Electoral competition with fake news10
The heterogeneous effects of internet voting10
Geopolitical Risks, Political Tensions and the European Economy10
Political competition in dynamic economies10
The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America10
The impact of economic sanctions on bilateral mergers and acquisitions9
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade9
Editorial Board9
Clearing the smog ceiling: The impact of women’s political empowerment on air quality in European regions9
Bureaucracy and labor market inefficiency: A contest model9
Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment9
Rara Avis: Latin American populism in the 21st century9
Chinese aid in Africa: Attitudes and conflict9
Why do (some) ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich? Evidence from a randomised survey experiment9
Editorial Board9
Farewell President! Political favoritism, economic inequality, and political polarization8
Inclusive institutions, unequal outcomes: Democracy, state capacity, and income inequality8
Duration and competing-risks determinants of terrorist hostage-taking incidents8
Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery8
Territorial state capacity and elite violence from the 6th to the 19th century8
Why do voters elect criminal politicians?8
Press freedom, market information, and international trade8
Pension reform preferences in Germany: Does information matter?8
Macroeconomic effects from media coverage of the China–U.S. trade war on selected EU countries8
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI8
The institutional impact of left-leaning populism in Latin America8
Political influence, central bank independence and inflation in Africa: A comparative analysis8
Government response to increased demand for public services: The cyclicality of government health expenditures in the OECD8
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China7
Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy7
Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? An analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches7
The transition of education a cross-country macro analysis7
Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success7
Dominance and technology war7
Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach7
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation7
Financial openness, capital rents and income inequality7
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China7
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?7
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–19777
Too afraid to vote? The effects of COVID-19 on voting behaviour7
Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?7
Identity, social media and online political activism6
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?6
Political economy of taxation, debt ceilings, and growth6
Social mobility and political stability6
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books6
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?6
An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum6
Campaigning for retirement: State teacher union campaign contributions and pension generosity6
Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany6
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection6
Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes6
Transitive delegation in social networks: Theory and experiment5
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide5
Breaking the silence: The effects of online social movements on gender-based violence5
Transition to broader-based politics: The role of suffrage extension in early 20th century Japan5
Tax liability side equivalence and time delayed externalities5
Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and transition success5
Revisiting forced migration: A machine learning perspective5
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method5
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking5
Islamist terrorism and the status of women5
Legislators in the crossfire: Strategic non-voting and the effect of transparency5
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment5
Non-random selection into entrepreneurship in the realm of government decentralization and corruption5
The grass is always greener on the other side: (Unfair) inequality and support for democracy5
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences5
Choosing not to lead: Monetary incentives and political selection in local parliamentary systems5
Part-time parliamentarians? Evidence from outside earnings and parliamentary activities5
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?5
Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 20125
Editorial Board5
Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China5
Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion5
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited5
Upstream effects of female political reservations5
Defending election victory by attacking company revenues: The impact of elections on the international defense industry5
Consistent flexibility: Enforcement of deficit rules through political incentives5
Globalization and fiscal policy after financial crises5
Regime change and critical junctures5
Can women's performance in elections determine the engagement of adolescent girls in politics?5
Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve5
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization5
Bias and careers: Evidence from the aid effectiveness literature5
The effect of international development association's (IDA) aid on conflict. A fuzzy regression discontinuity approach5
OECD pension reform: The role of demographic trends and the business cycle4
Equilibrium communication in political scandals4
Pro-growth inefficiency: Rents and moral hazard in infrastructure contests in China4
Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions: Evidence from Indonesia's election reform4
Short and long run democracy diffusion4
Unleashing potential: Model-based reform benchmarking for EU Member States4
Can biased polls distort electoral results? Evidence from the lab4
Openness and the welfare state: risk and income effects in protection without protectionism4
The impact of distance on parochial altruism: An experimental investigation4
Religiosity and political participation - Panel data evidence from post-communist Poland4
The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration4
Governments manipulate official Statistics: Institutions matter4
Exploring macroeconomic imbalances through EU Alert Mechanism Reports4
Political parties’ ideological bias and convergence in economic outcomes4
Movin’ on up? A survey experiment on mobility enhancing policies4
Editorial Board4
Strategic voting on tax policy: Direct vs representative democracy in the laboratory4
Crash for cash: Offshore financial destinations and IMF programs4
Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy4
Comparative politics with intraparty candidate selection4
Editorial Board4
Empowering the next generation: The role of direct democracy in youth enfranchisement4
Household expectations and dissent among policymakers4
Politically induced uncertainty and asset-market valuation4
On the duration of empires4
Editorial Board4
Does clarity make central banks more engaging? Lessons from ECB communications4
Trust in a national anti-corruption agency: A survey experiment among citizens and experts4
Do your tax problems make tax evasion seem more justifiable? Evidence from a survey experiment4
Television market size and political accountability in the U.S. House of Representatives4
Political voice on monetary policy: Evidence from the parliamentary hearings of the European Central Bank4
The generation gap in direct democracy: Age vs. cohort effects3
Editorial Board3
Environmental regulation, political incentives, and mortality in China3
Can internet surveys represent the entire population? A practitioners’ analysis3
Kinship ties and female political participation: The case of Philippine mayors3
Shock absorption via savings in the EMU: The role of international and public mechanisms3
Geopolitical shocks and commodity market dynamics: New evidence from the Russia-Ukraine conflict3
Fiscal rules, capital controls, and cross-border financial integration3
Social welfare and the group size paradox3
Does expert information affect citizens’ attitudes toward Corona policies? Evidence from Germany3
Women’s voice on redistribution: From gender equality to equalizing taxation3
Belonging or estrangement—The European Refugee Crisis and its effects on immigrant identity3
The economic consequences of businesspeople in politics: A survey3
Trust in the ECB: Drivers and consequences3
Politics of trade protection in an autocracy: Evidence from an EU tariff liberalization in Morocco3
Political alliances and trade: Europe in a polarized world3
In Memoriam: Heinrich W. Ursprung 1951–20213
Sharing the gains of transition: Evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data3
Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size - The role of ethnic fragmentation3
A corruption risk indicator for public procurement3
One money, one voice? Evaluating ideological positions of euro area central banks3
Should you want an educated mayor? Evidence from close elections in Italy3
The distributional impact of local banking. Evidence from the financial and sovereign-debt crises3
Vertical fiscal imbalance and local fiscal indiscipline: Empirical evidence from China3
How do electoral and voice accountability affect corruption? Experimental evidence from Egypt3
Assessing policy co-ordination in government: Text and network analysis of the UK's economic strategies3
Foreign aid and the quality of economic institutions3
Assessing the ethics of prison policies to ensure human rights compliance: Suicides and self-inflicted critical events in Italian prisons3
Emigrants’ missing votes3
A social image theory of information acquisition, opinion formation, and voting3
Predicting scandal3
Interest-rate setting and communication at the ECB in its first twenty years3
Crime and social expenditure: A political economic approach3
Political referenda and investment: Evidence from Scotland3
Intergovernmental grants and local public finance: An empirical examination in Israel3
Risk preferences and refugee migration to Europe: An experimental analysis2
The revolving door of former civil servants and firm value: A comprehensive approach2
Editorial Board2
Reinforcing each other: How the combination of European and domestic reforms increased competition in liberalized industries2
Assessing the Efficacy of China's Anti-Corruption Drive: Insights from Consumer Expenditure Patterns2
Ideological spillovers across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump's presidential election2
“Whatever It Takes!” How tonality of TV-news affected government bond yield spreads during the European debt crisis2
Perception of corruption and public support for redistribution in Latin America2
On the side effects of fiscal policy: Fiscal rules and income inequality2
Labor market flexibility and exchange rate regimes2
Does politics matter? A comparative assessment of discretionary fiscal policies in the euro area2
Fiscal decentralization and structural versus cyclical unemployment levels2
Political advertising and consumer sentiment: Evidence from U.S. presidential elections2
On the behavioral impacts of violence: Evidence from incentivized games in Kenya2
Comparing voting methods: 2016 US presidential election2
Optimal favoritism and maximal revenue: A generalized result2
Monetary policy decision-making by committee: Why, when and how it can work2
Terrorism and international economic policy2
The effects of IMF conditional programs on the unemployment rate2
Politics in the facebook era. Evidence from the 2016 US presidential elections2
Women at work: Gender quotas, municipal elections and local spending2
The political economy of education: Politician criminality and higher education institutions2
Life of the party: The polarizing effect of foreign direct investment2
Economic sanctions and sovereign debt default2
COVID-19 fatalities and internal conflict: Does government economic support matter?2
Jumping on the bandwagon and off the Titanic: An experimental study of turnout in two-tier voting2
Weapons and influence: Unpacking the impact of Chinese arms exports on the UNGA voting alignment2
Italy’s demographic trap: Voting for childcare subsidies and fertility outcomes2
Mandatory spending, political polarization, and macroeconomic volatility2
Using Machine Learning for measuring democracy: A practitioners guide and a new updated dataset for 186 countries from 1919 to 20192
Political budget cycles revisited: Testing the signalling process2
Coherence of output gaps in the euro area: The impact of the COVID-19 shock2
Don’t blame the government!? An assessment of debt forecast errors with a view to the EU Economic Governance Review2
(Mis-)Perceptions, information, and political polarization: A survey and a systematic literature review2
Well-being foundations of populism in Europe2
How does expropriation affect FDI? A synthetic control analysis of oil and gas sector nationalizations in South America2
Political institutions and output collapses2
Court-packing and judicial manipulation2
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