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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board87
Geopolitical spillover: The Russia–Ukraine invasion and its effects on money market funds85
Stock returns of federal reserve officials83
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks82
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy51
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus48
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China41
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?40
Spend on what? Insights on military spending efficiency38
Political tenure, term limits and corruption36
Political competition, party structure and economic growth: Theory and evidence from Indian states33
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Inequality aversion and government health expenditure31
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy31
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?25
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout23
Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage21
Don't shoot yourself in the foot! A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution and voting20
When citizens legalize drugs19
Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy19
Editorial Board19
Buy when there’s blood in the streets: How geopolitical adverse events can push defense stock returns to the extreme18
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Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China18
Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?18
Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China18
Hawks and Doves: Financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine18
Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic17
Geopolitical risk and stock prices17
Democracy favors access to credit of firms17
Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*16
Term limits and corruption: Evidence from U.S. states16
The impact of economic sanctions on bilateral mergers and acquisitions15
Political connections and participation in global value chains: Evidence from MENA firms15
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions15
The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes15
Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission15
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Lady Justice: The impact of female judges on jury trial verdicts in North Carolina14
Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve14
Doom loop, trilemma, and moral hazard: Which narrative of the banking union did stock market investors buy?14
Political polarization and international cooperation13
Stock markets and economic uncertainty: Roles of legislative sessions and coalition strength13
Editorial Board13
Geopolitical Risks, Political Tensions and the European Economy13
Political competition in dynamic economies13
Threshold of shadows: Unveiling organised crime in Italian municipal public procurement13
Clearing the smog ceiling: The impact of women’s political empowerment on air quality in European regions13
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade13
When do more selfish politicians manipulate less, not more?13
The effect of ethnic diversity on the participation in social groups: Evidence from trade unions13
Chinese aid in Africa: Attitudes and conflict13
Electoral competition with fake news13
Farewell President! Political favoritism, economic inequality, and political polarization13
The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America13
The heterogeneous effects of internet voting13
Macroeconomic effects from media coverage of the China–U.S. trade war on selected EU countries12
Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment12
Press freedom, market information, and international trade12
Bureaucracy and labor market inefficiency: A contest model12
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI12
Why do (some) ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich? Evidence from a randomised survey experiment12
Editorial Board12
Why do voters elect criminal politicians?12
Trading budget deficits for public investment: Optimal deficit rules for present-biased governments12
State building and social control11
Pension reform preferences in Germany: Does information matter?11
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation11
Decomposing migration drivers: Push-pull effects of political, financial, and socioeconomic institutions versus network effects in OECD migration11
The transition of education a cross-country macro analysis11
Electoral corruption cycles: Separating perceptions and experiences across households and experts11
The institutional impact of left-leaning populism in Latin America11
Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery11
Flooding the vote: Heterogeneous voting responses to a natural disaster in Germany11
Rules alone won't do: Empirical evidence on sanction mechanisms of fiscal rules and political budget cycles10
Corrupt reserve prices10
Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes10
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China10
Identity, social media and online political activism10
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China10
Physical vs. institutional public goods provision: Evidence from China10
Dominance and technology war10
Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach10
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–197710
Getting it right: Communication, voting, and collective truth finding10
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?10
Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success10
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking9
Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy9
Political budget cycles in federal systems: The case of India9
An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum9
Social mobility and political stability9
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Crafting compliance – The role of inclusion and participation in constitution-making9
Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany9
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?9
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?9
Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China9
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment8
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method8
Fiscal federalism and Cohesion Policy in the European Union NUTS-2 regions8
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited8
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?8
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide8
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Social media networks, fake news, and polarization8
Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion8
Islamist terrorism and the status of women8
Government size, economic freedom, and homicide rates: A cross-National analysis of 74 countries8
Legislators in the crossfire: Strategic non-voting and the effect of transparency8
The effect of international development association's (IDA) aid on conflict. A fuzzy regression discontinuity approach8
Is local opposition taking the wind out of the energy transition?7
The “German Vote” and its consequences: (Un)reliable parties in multilateral bargaining under private information7
Transitive delegation in social networks: Theory and experiment7
OECD pension reform: The role of demographic trends and the business cycle7
Transition to broader-based politics: The role of suffrage extension in early 20th century Japan7
Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 20127
Non-random selection into entrepreneurship in the realm of government decentralization and corruption7
The grass is always greener on the other side: (Unfair) inequality and support for democracy7
Decoding discourse: Gendered heckling in German Bundestag debates (1949–2021)7
Googling ‘inflation’: Household inflation attention across the euro area7
Assessing the joint risks of fiscal crises and climate change7
The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration7
Defending election victory by attacking company revenues: The impact of elections on the international defense industry7
Short-term rental bans and the hotel industry: Evidence from New York city7
Regime change and critical junctures7
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Distance matters: Geographical proximity and fiscal rules enforcement7
Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve7
Legislative populism, ideological alignment, and human freedom7
Choosing not to lead: Monetary incentives and political selection in local parliamentary systems7
Part-time parliamentarians? Evidence from outside earnings and parliamentary activities7
Globalization and fiscal policy after financial crises7
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences7
Comparative politics with intraparty candidate selection6
Openness and the welfare state: risk and income effects in protection without protectionism6
Governments manipulate official Statistics: Institutions matter6
Crash for cash: Offshore financial destinations and IMF programs6
Breaking the silence: The effects of online social movements on gender-based violence6
Household expectations and dissent among policymakers6
Trust in a national anti-corruption agency: A survey experiment among citizens and experts6
Pro-growth inefficiency: Rents and moral hazard in infrastructure contests in China6
Consistent flexibility: Enforcement of deficit rules through political incentives6
Effects of council size under a majority bonus: Evidence from French municipalities6
Does clarity make central banks more engaging? Lessons from ECB communications6
Empowering the next generation: The role of direct democracy in youth enfranchisement6
Equilibrium communication in political scandals6
Exploring macroeconomic imbalances through EU Alert Mechanism Reports6
Electoral democracy, corruption, and tax evasion6
Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and transition success6
The impact of income inequality on public environmental expenditure with green consumers6
Political voice on monetary policy: Evidence from the parliamentary hearings of the European Central Bank6
Religiosity and political participation - Panel data evidence from post-communist Poland6
The impact of distance on parochial altruism: An experimental investigation6
Television market size and political accountability in the U.S. House of Representatives6
Politically induced uncertainty and asset-market valuation5
One money, one voice? Evaluating ideological positions of euro area central banks5
Social welfare and the group size paradox5
Can biased polls distort electoral results? Evidence from the lab5
The distributional impact of local banking. Evidence from the financial and sovereign-debt crises5
Economic growth and imperialism5
Strategic voting on tax policy: Direct vs representative democracy in the laboratory5
Political parties’ ideological bias and convergence in economic outcomes5
The economic consequences of businesspeople in politics: A survey5
Kinship ties and female political participation: The case of Philippine mayors5
Globalisation and political trust: Evidence of a nuanced relationship5
Short and long run democracy diffusion5
Unleashing potential: Model-based reform benchmarking for EU Member States5
On the duration of empires5
Editorial Board5
Do your tax problems make tax evasion seem more justifiable? Evidence from a survey experiment5
Female enfranchisement and the conservative voting gap: Evidence from gender-separated precinct returns5
Kicking the can down the road? A real-time data analysis of delayed fiscal consolidation5
A social image theory of information acquisition, opinion formation, and voting5
Playing the stationary bandit: State size and the strategies of fiscal extraction5
Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions: Evidence from Indonesia's election reform5
Geopolitical shocks and commodity market dynamics: New evidence from the Russia-Ukraine conflict5
Movin’ on up? A survey experiment on mobility enhancing policies5
The political economy of government spending: Fiscal rules, sustainability, and political cycles5
Do appointing institutions influence monetary policy? Evidence from voting patterns in the Polish Monetary Policy Council5
Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size - The role of ethnic fragmentation5
Intergovernmental grants and local public finance: An empirical examination in Israel4
Local labour market conditions and electoral behaviour: An instrumental variable approach from Italy4
Does expert information affect citizens’ attitudes toward Corona policies? Evidence from Germany4
Sharing the gains of transition: Evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data4
Residential housing investment and local corruption: Empirical evidence from the Chinese housing market4
Political referenda and investment: Evidence from Scotland4
The dynamics of revolutions4
Belonging or estrangement—The European Refugee Crisis and its effects on immigrant identity4
Dynamics of protest: Understanding violent and nonviolent protest in Africa4
Women’s voice on redistribution: From gender equality to equalizing taxation4
Should you want an educated mayor? Evidence from close elections in Italy4
All that legislates is not gold: Representation and redistribution in Chile4
Social media campaigning and voter behavior–evidence for the German federal election 20214
Environmental regulation, political incentives, and mortality in China4
Predicting scandal4
Crime and social expenditure: A political economic approach4
Emigrants’ missing votes4
Inequality, conspiracy theories, and redistribution4
Assessing policy co-ordination in government: Text and network analysis of the UK's economic strategies4
The effect of international sanctions on the size of the middle class in Iran4
Assessing the ethics of prison policies to ensure human rights compliance: Suicides and self-inflicted critical events in Italian prisons4
The effects of IMF conditional programs on the unemployment rate3
Optimal favoritism and maximal revenue: A generalized result3
Baumol’s migrants: Productive and unproductive entrepreneurship and between-MSA migration3
Reprint of: Presidential versus parliamentary: Political system and stock market volatility3
Risk preferences and refugee migration to Europe: An experimental analysis3
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Jumping on the bandwagon and off the Titanic: An experimental study of turnout in two-tier voting3
Labor market institutions and preferences for redistribution3
Shock absorption via savings in the EMU: The role of international and public mechanisms3
Assessing the efficacy of China's anti-corruption drive: Insights from consumer expenditure patterns3
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Fiscal rules, capital controls, and cross-border financial integration3
Do as I say, not as I do? Economists policymakers and fiscal consolidation3
Don’t blame the government!? An assessment of debt forecast errors with a view to the EU Economic Governance Review3
Court-packing and judicial manipulation3
(Mis-)Perceptions, information, and political polarization: A survey and a systematic literature review3
Perception of corruption and public support for redistribution in Latin America3
Optimal supermajority threshold for suspending fiscal rules3
Municipal electoral competition and the economic condition of households: Evidence from the slums of Kolkata3
“Whatever It Takes!” How tonality of TV-news affected government bond yield spreads during the European debt crisis3
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Can internet surveys represent the entire population? A practitioners’ analysis3
Political alliances and trade: Europe in a polarized world3
Reprint of: Political budget cycles in federal systems: The case of India3
Coherence of output gaps in the euro area: The impact of the COVID-19 shock3
Reinforcing each other: How the combination of European and domestic reforms increased competition in liberalized industries3
Ideological spillovers across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump's presidential election3
Italy’s demographic trap: Voting for childcare subsidies and fertility outcomes3
On the behavioral impacts of violence: Evidence from incentivized games in Kenya3
Trust in the ECB: Drivers and consequences3
Politics in the facebook era. Evidence from the 2016 US presidential elections3
Corruption and reforms: Are liberal democracies different?3
Presidential versus parliamentary: Political system and stock market volatility3
Women at work: Gender quotas, municipal elections and local spending3
The Carnation Revolution and economic crisis: A synthetic control analysis (1974-2000)3
A corruption risk indicator for public procurement3
Democratic engagement in the shadow of authoritarian repression: Evidence from Chile (2019–2023)2
Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? – Evidence from Germany2
Approval vs. participation quorums2
Democracy as a competitive discovery process2
Rule of law and economic performance: A meta-regression analysis2
Social trust and the advanced aspects of social progress. Evidence for the European regions2
The effects of population health on political risk2
The accountability gap: Deliberation on monetary policy in Britain and America during the financial crisis2
Bank–public sector cooperation in the Vienna Initiative: Addressing the collective action problem through “reverse orchestration”2
Economic freedom and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation model with individual autonomy and national culture2
Letting third parties who suffer from petty corruption talk: Evidence from a collusive bribery experiment2
Why new parties (must) make excessive campaign pledges2
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