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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights58
Editorial Board48
Rewarding good political behavior: US aid, democracy, and human rights42
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks40
The price of silence: Media competition, capture, and electoral accountability40
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?36
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy36
Political tenure, term limits and corruption29
Anchored or de-anchored? That is the question27
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China27
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus26
Spend on what? Insights on military spending efficiency25
Strategic inefficiencies and federal redistribution during uncoordinated response to pandemic waves25
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam25
Don't shoot yourself in the foot! A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution and voting24
Geopolitical spillover: The Russia–Ukraine invasion and its effects on money market funds24
Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?23
Inequality aversion and government health expenditure22
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy21
Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage20
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout20
Editorial Board20
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?19
Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion18
Regulation and income inequality in the United States18
Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China17
Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China17
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The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes17
Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy16
Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic15
Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*15
Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?15
When citizens legalize drugs15
Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission15
Democracy favors access to credit of firms14
Hawks and Doves: Financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine14
Political connections and participation in global value chains: Evidence from MENA firms14
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Geopolitical risk and stock prices13
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions12
Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve12
Political competition in dynamic economies12
The effect of ethnic diversity on the participation in social groups: Evidence from trade unions12
Geopolitical Risks, Political Tensions and the European Economy11
Clearing the smog ceiling: The impact of women’s political empowerment on air quality in European regions11
The impact of economic sanctions on bilateral mergers and acquisitions11
Political polarization and international cooperation11
Doom loop, trilemma, and moral hazard: Which narrative of the banking union did stock market investors buy?11
The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America11
Lady Justice: The impact of female judges on jury trial verdicts in North Carolina11
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Chinese aid in Africa: Attitudes and conflict10
The heterogeneous effects of internet voting10
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Stock markets and economic uncertainty: Roles of legislative sessions and coalition strength10
Electoral competition with fake news10
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade10
Rara Avis: Latin American populism in the 21st century10
When do more selfish politicians manipulate less, not more?10
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI9
Why do voters elect criminal politicians?9
Farewell President! Political favoritism, economic inequality, and political polarization9
The institutional impact of left-leaning populism in Latin America9
Macroeconomic effects from media coverage of the China–U.S. trade war on selected EU countries9
Inclusive institutions, unequal outcomes: Democracy, state capacity, and income inequality9
Territorial state capacity and elite violence from the 6th to the 19th century9
Why do (some) ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich? Evidence from a randomised survey experiment9
Press freedom, market information, and international trade9
Political influence, central bank independence and inflation in Africa: A comparative analysis9
Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment9
Bureaucracy and labor market inefficiency: A contest model9
Flooding the vote: Heterogeneous voting responses to a natural disaster in Germany8
Duration and competing-risks determinants of terrorist hostage-taking incidents8
Too afraid to vote? The effects of COVID-19 on voting behaviour8
Financial openness, capital rents and income inequality8
Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?8
Dominance and technology war8
State building and social control8
Pension reform preferences in Germany: Does information matter?8
Rules alone won't do: Empirical evidence on sanction mechanisms of fiscal rules and political budget cycles8
Electoral corruption cycles: Separating perceptions and experiences across households and experts8
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?8
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China8
The transition of education a cross-country macro analysis8
Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery8
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation8
Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? An analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches8
Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes7
Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach7
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books7
An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum7
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?7
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection7
Legislators in the crossfire: Strategic non-voting and the effect of transparency7
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking7
Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success7
Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany7
Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy7
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?7
Islamist terrorism and the status of women7
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited7
Bias and careers: Evidence from the aid effectiveness literature7
Identity, social media and online political activism7
Social mobility and political stability7
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–19777
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China7
Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China7
Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion6
The “German Vote” and its consequences: (Un)reliable parties in multilateral bargaining under private information6
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Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 20126
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences6
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization6
Upstream effects of female political reservations6
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method6
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide6
Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve6
Googling ‘inflation’: Household inflation attention across the euro area6
Consistent flexibility: Enforcement of deficit rules through political incentives6
The grass is always greener on the other side: (Unfair) inequality and support for democracy6
Regime change and critical junctures6
The effect of international development association's (IDA) aid on conflict. A fuzzy regression discontinuity approach6
Editorial Board6
Fiscal federalism and Cohesion Policy in the European Union NUTS-2 regions6
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Non-random selection into entrepreneurship in the realm of government decentralization and corruption6
Breaking the silence: The effects of online social movements on gender-based violence6
Short-term rental bans and the hotel industry: Evidence from New York city6
Tax liability side equivalence and time delayed externalities6
Globalization and fiscal policy after financial crises6
Transitive delegation in social networks: Theory and experiment6
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?6
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment6
The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration5
Choosing not to lead: Monetary incentives and political selection in local parliamentary systems5
Equilibrium communication in political scandals5
Comparative politics with intraparty candidate selection5
Electoral democracy, corruption, and tax evasion5
Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy5
Do your tax problems make tax evasion seem more justifiable? Evidence from a survey experiment5
Trust in a national anti-corruption agency: A survey experiment among citizens and experts5
The impact of distance on parochial altruism: An experimental investigation5
Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and transition success5
Transition to broader-based politics: The role of suffrage extension in early 20th century Japan5
Revisiting forced migration: A machine learning perspective5
Household expectations and dissent among policymakers5
Social welfare and the group size paradox5
Exploring macroeconomic imbalances through EU Alert Mechanism Reports5
Religiosity and political participation - Panel data evidence from post-communist Poland5
Pro-growth inefficiency: Rents and moral hazard in infrastructure contests in China5
Openness and the welfare state: risk and income effects in protection without protectionism5
Part-time parliamentarians? Evidence from outside earnings and parliamentary activities5
Can women's performance in elections determine the engagement of adolescent girls in politics?5
Defending election victory by attacking company revenues: The impact of elections on the international defense industry5
OECD pension reform: The role of demographic trends and the business cycle5
Empowering the next generation: The role of direct democracy in youth enfranchisement5
Political parties’ ideological bias and convergence in economic outcomes5
Television market size and political accountability in the U.S. House of Representatives5
Does clarity make central banks more engaging? Lessons from ECB communications5
Political voice on monetary policy: Evidence from the parliamentary hearings of the European Central Bank5
Crash for cash: Offshore financial destinations and IMF programs5
Governments manipulate official Statistics: Institutions matter5
Can biased polls distort electoral results? Evidence from the lab4
Politics of trade protection in an autocracy: Evidence from an EU tariff liberalization in Morocco4
Crime and social expenditure: A political economic approach4
Assessing the ethics of prison policies to ensure human rights compliance: Suicides and self-inflicted critical events in Italian prisons4
Unleashing potential: Model-based reform benchmarking for EU Member States4
Political referenda and investment: Evidence from Scotland4
Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size - The role of ethnic fragmentation4
Environmental regulation, political incentives, and mortality in China4
The distributional impact of local banking. Evidence from the financial and sovereign-debt crises4
Movin’ on up? A survey experiment on mobility enhancing policies4
Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions: Evidence from Indonesia's election reform4
In Memoriam: Heinrich W. Ursprung 1951–20214
A social image theory of information acquisition, opinion formation, and voting4
One money, one voice? Evaluating ideological positions of euro area central banks4
The generation gap in direct democracy: Age vs. cohort effects4
Politically induced uncertainty and asset-market valuation4
Kinship ties and female political participation: The case of Philippine mayors4
On the duration of empires4
Kicking the can down the road? A real-time data analysis of delayed fiscal consolidation4
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Geopolitical shocks and commodity market dynamics: New evidence from the Russia-Ukraine conflict4
The dynamics of revolutions4
Fiscal rules, capital controls, and cross-border financial integration4
Assessing policy co-ordination in government: Text and network analysis of the UK's economic strategies4
Do appointing institutions influence monetary policy? Evidence from voting patterns in the Polish Monetary Policy Council4
Predicting scandal4
Short and long run democracy diffusion4
Social media campaigning and voter behavior–evidence for the German federal election 20214
The political economy of government spending: Fiscal rules, sustainability, and political cycles4
The economic consequences of businesspeople in politics: A survey4
Interest-rate setting and communication at the ECB in its first twenty years4
Strategic voting on tax policy: Direct vs representative democracy in the laboratory4
Should you want an educated mayor? Evidence from close elections in Italy3
Don’t blame the government!? An assessment of debt forecast errors with a view to the EU Economic Governance Review3
Jumping on the bandwagon and off the Titanic: An experimental study of turnout in two-tier voting3
Political budget cycles revisited: Testing the signalling process3
Using Machine Learning for measuring democracy: A practitioners guide and a new updated dataset for 186 countries from 1919 to 20193
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
Sharing the gains of transition: Evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data3
Intergovernmental grants and local public finance: An empirical examination in Israel3
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The effects of IMF conditional programs on the unemployment rate3
Terrorism and international economic policy3
Women at work: Gender quotas, municipal elections and local spending3
Politics in the facebook era. Evidence from the 2016 US presidential elections3
Coherence of output gaps in the euro area: The impact of the COVID-19 shock3
Dynamics of protest: Understanding violent and nonviolent protest in Africa3
Inequality, conspiracy theories, and redistribution3
Belonging or estrangement—The European Refugee Crisis and its effects on immigrant identity3
Women’s voice on redistribution: From gender equality to equalizing taxation3
A corruption risk indicator for public procurement3
“Whatever It Takes!” How tonality of TV-news affected government bond yield spreads during the European debt crisis3
Trust in the ECB: Drivers and consequences3
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
Political alliances and trade: Europe in a polarized world3
Does expert information affect citizens’ attitudes toward Corona policies? Evidence from Germany3
Emigrants’ missing votes3
Do longer constitutions corrupt?2
Economic freedom and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation model with individual autonomy and national culture2
Can health passport overcome political hurdles to COVID-19 vaccination?2
Social trust and the advanced aspects of social progress. Evidence for the European regions2
Democracy as a competitive discovery process2
Make it burn? Wildfires, disaster aid and presidential approval2
Does politics matter? A comparative assessment of discretionary fiscal policies in the euro area2
Why new parties (must) make excessive campaign pledges2
Economic sanctions and sovereign debt default2
Monetary policy decision-making by committee: Why, when and how it can work2
Approval vs. participation quorums2
Stock market spillovers of global risks and hedging opportunities2
District versus at-large voting: Why district voting results in worse policy for minorities2
Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? – Evidence from Germany2
Causal factors of terrorist attacks on countries, and corresponding spill-overs between them2
Life of the party: The polarizing effect of foreign direct investment2
Political institutions and output collapses2
Italy’s demographic trap: Voting for childcare subsidies and fertility outcomes2
Fiscal decentralization and structural versus cyclical unemployment levels2
Does ethnic heterogeneity decrease workers’ effort in the presence of income redistribution? An experimental analysis2
Rule of law and economic performance: A meta-regression analysis2
Letting third parties who suffer from petty corruption talk: Evidence from a collusive bribery experiment2
The accountability gap: Deliberation on monetary policy in Britain and America during the financial crisis2
COVID-19 fatalities and internal conflict: Does government economic support matter?2
Labor market flexibility and exchange rate regimes2
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
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