European Journal of Political Economy

Article	Citations
Perception vs. experience: Explaining differences in corruption measures using microdata	38
Perceptions of inequality	38
Too afraid to vote? The effects of COVID-19 on voting behaviour	34
Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, and economic policy	31
Vertical fiscal imbalance and local fiscal indiscipline: Empirical evidence from China	28
Natural disasters and electoral outcomes	27
Public opinion on immigration in Europe: Preference and salience	26
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout	25
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization	25
Politically connected firms and privileged access to credit: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	23
Do unhappy citizens vote for populism?	22
Trust in the ECB: Drivers and consequences	21
Geopolitics and rare earth metals	21
Low-wage import competition and populist backlash: The case of Italy	21
Political voice on monetary policy: Evidence from the parliamentary hearings of the European Central Bank	19
Tax evasion and tax morale: A social network analysis	19
Do fiscal rules need budget transparency to be effective?	19
Do the ECB's introductory statements help predict monetary policy? Evidence from a tone analysis	18
Using Machine Learning for measuring democracy: A practitioners guide and a new updated dataset for 186 countries from 1919 to 2019	18
Exposure to corruption and political participation: Evidence from Italian municipalities	17
Foreign aid and the quality of economic institutions	17
“The mother of all political problems”? On asylum seekers and elections	17
The political economy of IMF conditionality and central bank independence	16
Women and local public finance	15
Inclusive institutions, unequal outcomes: Democracy, state capacity, and income inequality	15

Regulation and income inequality in the United States	15
Savings from public procurement centralization in the healthcare system	15
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?	14
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	14
Unbundling the effect of political instability on income redistribution	14
Does clarity make central banks more engaging? Lessons from ECB communications	14
Corporate tax competition: A meta-analysis	14
Explaining destinations and volumes of international arms transfers: A novel network Heckman selection model	13
Political influence, central bank independence and inflation in Africa: A comparative analysis	13
COVID-19 fatalities and internal conflict: Does government economic support matter?	13
Income inequality and income bias in voter turnout	13
Real-time fiscal policy responses in the OECD from 1997 to 2018: Procyclical but sustainable?	12
The influence of political fragmentation on public enterprises: Evidence from German municipalities	11
How do the factors determining terrorist groups’ longevity differ from those affecting their success?	11
Investment in trade facilitating infrastructure: A political-economy analysis	11
Sharing the gains of transition: Evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data	11
Russian power and the state-owned enterprise	11
Can internet surveys represent the entire population? A practitioners’ analysis	11
Anchored or de-anchored? That is the question	11
Terrorism and international economic policy	10
The financial market impact of ECB monetary policy press conferences — A text based approach	10
Perception of corruption and public support for redistribution in Latin America	10
Intragenerational deliberation and intergenerational sustainability dilemma	10
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking	10
Revisiting forced migration: A machine learning perspective	10
Attitudes towards euro area reforms: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment	10
Trust and attitudes toward income inequality: Does individualism matter?	10
Government response to increased demand for public services: The cyclicality of government health expenditures in the OECD	9
Believers vs. deniers: Climate change and environmental policy polarization	9
Political forecast cycles	9
Individualism and political instability	9
Political favoritism by powerful politicians: Evidence from chief ministers in India	9
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited	9
Politicians at higher levels of government are perceived as more corrupt	9
The political economy of productivity growth	9
Corruption and legislature size: Evidence from Brazil	9
Voting under threat: Evidence from the 2020 French local elections	9
What constitutes a constitutional amendment culture?	8
A corruption risk indicator for public procurement	8
Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size - The role of ethnic fragmentation	8
Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy	8
Investing in friends: The role of geopolitical alignment in FDI flows	8
Can judicial efficiency improve territorial attractiveness to FDI? The Italian experience	8
To vote, or not to vote? Electoral campaigns and the spread of COVID-19	8
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI	8
Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?	8
Policy tolerance of economic crime? An empirical analysis of the effect of counterfeiting on Italian trade	7
The transition of corruption institutions and dynamics	7
Economic, social and political fragmentation: Linking knowledge-biased growth, identity, populism and protectionism	7
Political budget cycles revisited: Testing the signalling process	7

Political tenure, term limits and corruption	7
Ideology and monetary policy. The role of political parties’ stances in the European Central Bank’s parliamentary hearings	7
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide	7
The economic effects of political disintegration: Lessons from Serbia and Montenegro	7
Economic growth, equilibrium welfare, and public goods provision with intergenerational altruism	6
Sharks and minnows in a shoal of words: Measuring latent ideological positions based on text mining techniques	6
Can gender quotas break the glass ceiling? Evidence from Italian municipal elections	6
Political alignment, centralisation, and the sense of government unpreparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Political economy of taxation, debt ceilings, and growth	6
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?	6
The political economy of the G20 agenda on financial regulation	6
Are social and environmental clauses a tool for favoritism? Analysis of French public procurement contracts	6
Love on the rocks: The causal effects of separatist governments in Quebec	6
Democracy favors access to credit of firms	6
Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion	6
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?	6
Rara Avis: Latin American populism in the 21st century	6
Asylum recognition rates in Europe: Policies and performance	6
Entrepreneurship, trust and corruption	6
Environmental regulation, political incentives, and mortality in China	6
Politics of trade protection in an autocracy: Evidence from an EU tariff liberalization in Morocco	5
Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?	5
Birthplace favoritism and the distribution of budget amendments in Brazil: Evidence from nondistrict elections	5
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam	5
Temporary partnership and subcontracting: Pre- vs. post- award outsourcing in public procurement	5
Does democratic progress deter terrorist incidents?	5
Health spending in Italy: The impact of immigrants	5
How economic expectations shape preferences for national independence: Evidence from Greenland	5
Special issue: Central banking in the 21st century - A crisis of accountability?	5
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection	5
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books	5
The Commission and the Council Presidency in the European Union: Strategic interactions and legislative powers	5
The 2020 US Presidential election and Trump’s wars on trade and health insurance	5
Electoral competition with fake news	5
How do electoral and voice accountability affect corruption? Experimental evidence from Egypt	5
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment	5
Official fiscal forecasts in EU member states under the European Semester and Fiscal Compact – An empirical assessment	5
The generation gap in direct democracy: Age vs. cohort effects	5
Delegation and the regulation of U.S. financial markets	5
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights	5
Monetary policy decision-making by committee: Why, when and how it can work	5
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences	5
Coherence of output gaps in the euro area: The impact of the COVID-19 shock	5
The persistence of political myths and ideologies	5
The causal effects of rule of law & property rights on fiscal capacity	5
Women at work: Gender quotas, municipal elections and local spending	4
Framing of economic news and policy support during a pandemic: Evidence from a survey experiment	4
Crime and social expenditure: A political economic approach	4
Economic freedom and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation model with individual autonomy and national culture	4
Work ethic and economic development: An investigation into Weber’s thesis	4
Interest-rate setting and communication at the ECB in its first twenty years	4
Bureaucratic discrimination in electoral authoritarian regimes: Experimental evidence from Russia	4
Gender bias and women’s political performance	4
Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 2012	4
A spatial analysis of local corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Chinese cities	4
The political economy of fiscal procyclicality	4
The effects of federal regulations on corruption in U.S. States	4
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy	4
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China	4
Life of the party: The polarizing effect of foreign direct investment	4
The initiative, referendum, and distribution of income: An empirical analysis of Swiss cantons	4
Do your tax problems make tax evasion seem more justifiable? Evidence from a survey experiment	4
The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration	4
Fiscal federalism and economic performance new evidence from Switzerland	4
Clientelism and fiscal redistribution: Evidence across countries	4
Community forestry and its implications for land related disputes: Evidence from India	4
Wage centralization and the political economy of budget deficits	4
The accountability gap: Deliberation on monetary policy in Britain and America during the financial crisis	4
Voting with your feet: Political competition and internal migration in the United States	4
You reap what you know: Appropriability and the origin of European states	4
Comparing voting methods: 2016 US presidential election	4
Leader characteristics and constitutional compliance	4
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method	3
Illegal drugs and public corruption: Crack based evidence from California	3
Corruption, scandals and incompetence: Do voters care?	3
Making and breaking coalitions: Strategic sophistication and prosociality in majority decisions	3
Mandatory spending, political polarization, and macroeconomic volatility	3
Causal factors of terrorist attacks on countries, and corresponding spill-overs between them	3
The response of taxpayer compliance to the large shock of Italian unification	3
Can women's performance in elections determine the engagement of adolescent girls in politics?	3

Differences matter: The effect of coup types on physical integrity rights	3
Contagious populists: The impact of election information shocks on populist party preferences in Germany	3
Strategic inefficiencies and federal redistribution during uncoordinated response to pandemic waves	3
Privacy rights in online interactions and litigation dynamics: A social custom view	3
How do the media scrutinise central banking? Evidence from the Bank of England	3
The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America	3
Local norms describing the role of the state and the private provision of training	3
Earthquake hazard and civic capital	3
Populism and propagation of far-right extremism	3
Ambiguous protection	3
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?	3
Is european attachment sufficiently strong to support an EU fiscal capacity: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	3
The effect of public financing on candidate reemergence and success in elections	3
The probability of violating Arrow’s conditions	3
Participatory budgeting and the pattern of local government spending: Evidence from South Korea	3
Will the real populists please stand up? A machine learning index of party populism	3
Upstream effects of female political reservations	3
The price of silence: Media competition, capture, and electoral accountability	3
Movin’ on up? A survey experiment on mobility enhancing policies	3
Overconfidence, income-ability gap, and preferences for income equality	3
Political openness and armed conflict: Evidence from local councils in Colombia	3
Divided committees and strategic vagueness	3
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade	3
Trade in trash: A political economy approach	3
Do longer constitutions corrupt?	3
On the side effects of fiscal policy: Fiscal rules and income inequality	3
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?	3
Press freedom, market information, and international trade	3
Reconsidering the modernization hypothesis: The role of diversified production and interest‐group competition	3
Trust and punishment	3
Part-time parliamentarians? Evidence from outside earnings and parliamentary activities	3
Parenthood and political engagement	3
The effects of inter-municipal cooperation and central grant allocation on the size of the French local public sector	3
Does politics matter? A comparative assessment of discretionary fiscal policies in the euro area	3
The effects of IMF conditional programs on the unemployment rate	3
Diplomatic relations and cross-border investments in the European Union	3
Labor market flexibility and exchange rate regimes	2
Political monetary cycles: An empirical study	2
Openness and the welfare state: risk and income effects in protection without protectionism	2
Fiscal rules and the reliability of public investment plans: Evidence from local governments	2
Public debt rule breaking by time-inconsistent voters	2
The effect of central government grants on local educational policy	2
Macroeconomic expectations and consumer sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of others’ beliefs	2
Is democracy good for growth? — Development at political transition time matters	2
Surfing the credit wave: Government popularity as driver of credit cycles	2
The effect of populism on high-skilled migration: Evidence from inventors	2
Elections and unemployment benefits for families: Did the Family Benefit Dispute affect election outcomes in Germany?	2
Unleashing potential: Model-based reform benchmarking for EU Member States	2
Exploring macroeconomic imbalances through EU Alert Mechanism Reports	2
Fiscal decentralization and tax collection: evidence from the rural property tax in Brazil	2
Expressive voting with booing and cheering: Evidence from Britain	2
Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and transition success	2
Italy: Immigration and the evolution of populism	2
Does expert information affect citizens’ attitudes toward Corona policies? Evidence from Germany	2
Intergovernmental grants and local public finance: An empirical examination in Israel	2
Campaigning for retirement: State teacher union campaign contributions and pension generosity	2
Financial openness, capital rents and income inequality	2
All you need is political love? Assessing the effects of partisan favouritism in Croatia's public procurement	2
Pro-growth inefficiency: Rents and moral hazard in infrastructure contests in China	2
Comparative politics with intraparty candidate selection	2
Media fabrication of corruption and the quality of the political class: The case of Italy	2
Territorial state capacity and elite violence from the 6th to the 19th century	2
Tax liability side equivalence and time delayed externalities	2
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions	2
Emigrants’ missing votes	2
Microdynamics, granularity and populism: The Finnish case	2
Studying more to vote less. Education and voter turnout in Italy	2
Regime security and taxation in autocracies: Who is taxed and how?	2