European Journal of Political Economy

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Political Economy is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus63
Rewarding good political behavior: US aid, democracy, and human rights56
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights47
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?42
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Spend on what? Insights on military spending efficiency38
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam30
Geopolitical spillover: The Russia–Ukraine invasion and its effects on money market funds29
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Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy28
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks28
Political tenure, term limits and corruption27
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China26
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Inequality aversion and government health expenditure24
Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage24
Don't shoot yourself in the foot! A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution and voting24
Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?24
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout22
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?22
Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion20
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy19
Regulation and income inequality in the United States18
The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes18
Hawks and Doves: Financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine17
Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China17
Political connections and participation in global value chains: Evidence from MENA firms16
Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China16
When citizens legalize drugs16
Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic16
Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*15
Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?15
Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy14
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Geopolitical risk and stock prices13
Lady Justice: The impact of female judges on jury trial verdicts in North Carolina13
Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission13
Doom loop, trilemma, and moral hazard: Which narrative of the banking union did stock market investors buy?13
Democracy favors access to credit of firms13
Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve12
The impact of economic sanctions on bilateral mergers and acquisitions12
Geopolitical Risks, Political Tensions and the European Economy12
The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America11
The effect of ethnic diversity on the participation in social groups: Evidence from trade unions11
Electoral competition with fake news11
Rara Avis: Latin American populism in the 21st century11
Stock markets and economic uncertainty: Roles of legislative sessions and coalition strength11
Political competition in dynamic economies11
The heterogeneous effects of internet voting11
Farewell President! Political favoritism, economic inequality, and political polarization10
Chinese aid in Africa: Attitudes and conflict10
Clearing the smog ceiling: The impact of women’s political empowerment on air quality in European regions10
Political polarization and international cooperation10
Why do voters elect criminal politicians?10
Why do (some) ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich? Evidence from a randomised survey experiment10
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When do more selfish politicians manipulate less, not more?10
Bureaucracy and labor market inefficiency: A contest model10
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Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment10
Macroeconomic effects from media coverage of the China–U.S. trade war on selected EU countries10
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade10
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions10
Territorial state capacity and elite violence from the 6th to the 19th century10
Inclusive institutions, unequal outcomes: Democracy, state capacity, and income inequality10
Press freedom, market information, and international trade9
State building and social control9
Duration and competing-risks determinants of terrorist hostage-taking incidents9
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation9
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?9
Rules alone won't do: Empirical evidence on sanction mechanisms of fiscal rules and political budget cycles9
The institutional impact of left-leaning populism in Latin America9
The transition of education a cross-country macro analysis9
Pension reform preferences in Germany: Does information matter?9
Electoral corruption cycles: Separating perceptions and experiences across households and experts9
Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success9
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI9
Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery9
Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? An analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches9
Flooding the vote: Heterogeneous voting responses to a natural disaster in Germany9
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China9
An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum8
Dominance and technology war8
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection8
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–19778
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?8
Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes8
Identity, social media and online political activism8
Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach8
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?8
Financial openness, capital rents and income inequality8
Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany8
Social mobility and political stability8
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books7
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China7
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited7
Legislators in the crossfire: Strategic non-voting and the effect of transparency7
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide7
Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve7
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Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy7
Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion7
Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China7
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment7
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization7
Bias and careers: Evidence from the aid effectiveness literature7
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking7
Fiscal federalism and Cohesion Policy in the European Union NUTS-2 regions7
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?7
Islamist terrorism and the status of women7
The effect of international development association's (IDA) aid on conflict. A fuzzy regression discontinuity approach7
Transitive delegation in social networks: Theory and experiment7
Part-time parliamentarians? Evidence from outside earnings and parliamentary activities6
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences6
Transition to broader-based politics: The role of suffrage extension in early 20th century Japan6
Can women's performance in elections determine the engagement of adolescent girls in politics?6
Breaking the silence: The effects of online social movements on gender-based violence6
Upstream effects of female political reservations6
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method6
Regime change and critical junctures6
Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and transition success6
Revisiting forced migration: A machine learning perspective6
Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 20126
Tax liability side equivalence and time delayed externalities6
Short-term rental bans and the hotel industry: Evidence from New York city6
Governments manipulate official Statistics: Institutions matter6
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Choosing not to lead: Monetary incentives and political selection in local parliamentary systems6
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Non-random selection into entrepreneurship in the realm of government decentralization and corruption6
Pro-growth inefficiency: Rents and moral hazard in infrastructure contests in China6
Defending election victory by attacking company revenues: The impact of elections on the international defense industry6
The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration6
Consistent flexibility: Enforcement of deficit rules through political incentives6
OECD pension reform: The role of demographic trends and the business cycle6
Globalization and fiscal policy after financial crises6
The grass is always greener on the other side: (Unfair) inequality and support for democracy6
Googling ‘inflation’: Household inflation attention across the euro area6
The “German Vote” and its consequences: (Un)reliable parties in multilateral bargaining under private information6
Household expectations and dissent among policymakers6
Electoral democracy, corruption, and tax evasion6
Political voice on monetary policy: Evidence from the parliamentary hearings of the European Central Bank6
Do appointing institutions influence monetary policy? Evidence from voting patterns in the Polish Monetary Policy Council5
Strategic voting on tax policy: Direct vs representative democracy in the laboratory5
Exploring macroeconomic imbalances through EU Alert Mechanism Reports5
Openness and the welfare state: risk and income effects in protection without protectionism5
Equilibrium communication in political scandals5
Politically induced uncertainty and asset-market valuation5
Short and long run democracy diffusion5
The political economy of government spending: Fiscal rules, sustainability, and political cycles5
Social welfare and the group size paradox5
Trust in a national anti-corruption agency: A survey experiment among citizens and experts5
Comparative politics with intraparty candidate selection5
Crash for cash: Offshore financial destinations and IMF programs5
The impact of distance on parochial altruism: An experimental investigation5
Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy5
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Religiosity and political participation - Panel data evidence from post-communist Poland5
Political parties’ ideological bias and convergence in economic outcomes5
Do your tax problems make tax evasion seem more justifiable? Evidence from a survey experiment5
Empowering the next generation: The role of direct democracy in youth enfranchisement5
Television market size and political accountability in the U.S. House of Representatives5
Does clarity make central banks more engaging? Lessons from ECB communications5
On the duration of empires5
Environmental regulation, political incentives, and mortality in China4
A social image theory of information acquisition, opinion formation, and voting4
Crime and social expenditure: A political economic approach4
One money, one voice? Evaluating ideological positions of euro area central banks4
Local labour market conditions and electoral behaviour: An instrumental variable approach from Italy4
Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions: Evidence from Indonesia's election reform4
Fiscal rules, capital controls, and cross-border financial integration4
Interest-rate setting and communication at the ECB in its first twenty years4
Should you want an educated mayor? Evidence from close elections in Italy4
Unleashing potential: Model-based reform benchmarking for EU Member States4
The generation gap in direct democracy: Age vs. cohort effects4
Assessing the ethics of prison policies to ensure human rights compliance: Suicides and self-inflicted critical events in Italian prisons4
Social media campaigning and voter behavior–evidence for the German federal election 20214
In Memoriam: Heinrich W. Ursprung 1951–20214
Does expert information affect citizens’ attitudes toward Corona policies? Evidence from Germany4
Can biased polls distort electoral results? Evidence from the lab4
Political alliances and trade: Europe in a polarized world4
Geopolitical shocks and commodity market dynamics: New evidence from the Russia-Ukraine conflict4
Predicting scandal4
Movin’ on up? A survey experiment on mobility enhancing policies4
Kinship ties and female political participation: The case of Philippine mayors4
Intergovernmental grants and local public finance: An empirical examination in Israel4
A corruption risk indicator for public procurement4
Kicking the can down the road? A real-time data analysis of delayed fiscal consolidation4
Politics of trade protection in an autocracy: Evidence from an EU tariff liberalization in Morocco4
Belonging or estrangement—The European Refugee Crisis and its effects on immigrant identity4
The dynamics of revolutions4
Sharing the gains of transition: Evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data4
The distributional impact of local banking. Evidence from the financial and sovereign-debt crises4
Inequality, conspiracy theories, and redistribution4
Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size - The role of ethnic fragmentation4
Assessing policy co-ordination in government: Text and network analysis of the UK's economic strategies4
Political referenda and investment: Evidence from Scotland4
The economic consequences of businesspeople in politics: A survey4
Emigrants’ missing votes4
“Whatever It Takes!” How tonality of TV-news affected government bond yield spreads during the European debt crisis3
Don’t blame the government!? An assessment of debt forecast errors with a view to the EU Economic Governance Review3
Corruption and reforms: Are liberal democracies different?3
Women’s voice on redistribution: From gender equality to equalizing taxation3
Shock absorption via savings in the EMU: The role of international and public mechanisms3
Reprint of: Presidential versus parliamentary: Political system and stock market volatility3
Conflict, information and regime-change3
The political economy of education: Politician criminality and higher education institutions3
Presidential versus parliamentary: Political system and stock market volatility3
Optimal favoritism and maximal revenue: A generalized result3
(Mis-)Perceptions, information, and political polarization: A survey and a systematic literature review3
Labor Market Institutions and Preferences for Redistribution3
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Assessing the efficacy of China's anti-corruption drive: Insights from consumer expenditure patterns3
Municipal electoral competition and the economic condition of households: Evidence from the slums of Kolkata3
Can internet surveys represent the entire population? A practitioners’ analysis3
Using Machine Learning for measuring democracy: A practitioners guide and a new updated dataset for 186 countries from 1919 to 20193
Monetary policy decision-making by committee: Why, when and how it can work3
The effect of increased women's legislative representation on women's well-being3
Italy’s demographic trap: Voting for childcare subsidies and fertility outcomes3
Court-packing and judicial manipulation3
On the behavioral impacts of violence: Evidence from incentivized games in Kenya3
Ideological spillovers across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump's presidential election3
Politics in the facebook era. Evidence from the 2016 US presidential elections3
Trust in the ECB: Drivers and consequences3
Coherence of output gaps in the euro area: The impact of the COVID-19 shock3
Jumping on the bandwagon and off the Titanic: An experimental study of turnout in two-tier voting3
Women at work: Gender quotas, municipal elections and local spending3
The revolving door of former civil servants and firm value: A comprehensive approach3
Risk preferences and refugee migration to Europe: An experimental analysis3
Weapons and influence: Unpacking the impact of Chinese arms exports on the UNGA voting alignment3
Reinforcing each other: How the combination of European and domestic reforms increased competition in liberalized industries3
Perception of corruption and public support for redistribution in Latin America3
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The effects of IMF conditional programs on the unemployment rate3
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