European Journal of Political Economy

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Political Economy is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
How social media can undermine democracy40
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?38
What drives abnormal returns of stock markets in wartime? Evidence from 17 invasions34
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks34
The effect of populism on high-skilled migration: Evidence from inventors32
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus28
Labor market flexibility and exchange rate regimes27
Editorial Board25
The effects of inter-municipal cooperation and central grant allocation on the size of the French local public sector23
Competition, benchmarking, and electoral success: Evidence from 69 years of the German Bundestag23
Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?22
Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success22
How do the media scrutinise central banking? Evidence from the Bank of England20
Does politics matter? A comparative assessment of discretionary fiscal policies in the euro area20
Movin’ on up? A survey experiment on mobility enhancing policies19
How does expropriation affect FDI? A synthetic control analysis of oil and gas sector nationalizations in South America19
Delegation and the regulation of U.S. financial markets18
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China18
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam18
Dominance and technology war17
Explaining the stringency of environmental policies: Domestic determinants or international policy coordination?17
Editorial Board16
Editorial Board16
Life of the party: The polarizing effect of foreign direct investment16
The political economy of international conflict and cooperation: A special issue in honor of Heinrich W. Ursprung15
All you need is political love? Assessing the effects of partisan favouritism in Croatia's public procurement15
Can biased polls distort electoral results? Evidence from the lab14
On the duration of empires14
Unleashing potential: Model-based reform benchmarking for EU Member States13
Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions: Evidence from Indonesia's election reform13
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights13
Economic growth, equilibrium welfare, and public goods provision with intergenerational altruism13
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?13
Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation12
Electoral quotas and developmental outcomes: Evidence from India12
Political institutions and output collapses11
Economic sanctions and sovereign debt default11
Interest-rate setting and communication at the ECB in its first twenty years10
Wealth inequality and mega events10
The Commission and the Council Presidency in the European Union: Strategic interactions and legislative powers10
Political tenure, term limits and corruption10
The price of silence: Media competition, capture, and electoral accountability10
Geopolitical shocks and commodity market dynamics: New evidence from the Russia-Ukraine conflict10
Parenthood and political engagement10
Strategic inefficiencies and federal redistribution during uncoordinated response to pandemic waves10
Rewarding good political behavior: US aid, democracy, and human rights9
Divided government, polarization, and policy: Regression-discontinuity evidence from US states9
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China9
Priming attitudes toward immigrants: Implications for migration research and survey design9
Politically induced uncertainty and asset-market valuation9
Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? An analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches8
COVID-19 fatalities and internal conflict: Does government economic support matter?8
Anchored or de-anchored? That is the question8
Short and long run democracy diffusion8
Opportunistic privatization8
Birthplace favoritism and the distribution of budget amendments in Brazil: Evidence from nondistrict elections8
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy8
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation8
Fiscal decentralization and structural versus cyclical unemployment levels8
Will the real populists please stand up? A machine learning index of party populism8
Political Parties’ Ideological Bias and Convergence in Economic Outcome.7
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection7
Strategic voting on tax policy: Direct vs representative democracy in the laboratory7
Deeds or words? The local influence of anti-immigrant parties on foreigners’ flows7
Do fiscal rules need budget transparency to be effective?7
Online social media and populism in Europe7
Financial openness, capital rents and income inequality7
The distributional impact of local banking. Evidence from the financial and sovereign-debt crises7
Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach7
Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size - The role of ethnic fragmentation7
Well-being foundations of populism in Europe7
Voters’ influence on local tax policy6
Identity, social media and online political activism6
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books6
Institutions, assortative matching and cultural evolution6
Fines for unequal societies6
Social trust and the advanced aspects of social progress. Evidence for the European regions6
Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? – Evidence from Germany6
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?6
An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum6
Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany6
The economic consequences of businesspeople in politics: A survey6
Do public account financial statements matter? Evidence from Japanese municipalities6
Grants-in-aid and election outcomes in recipient jurisdictions: The impact of EU funds on mayoral elections in Poland6
The accountability gap: Deliberation on monetary policy in Britain and America during the financial crisis5
Political referenda and investment: Evidence from Scotland5
A social image theory of information acquisition, opinion formation, and voting5
Delegation in a multi-tier court system: Are remands in the U.S. federal courts driven by moral hazard?5
Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion5
Editorial Board5
Anti-corruption campaign and economic growth in Chinese cities: The dichotomous mechanism of network-based political competition5
Reforms of collective bargaining institutions in European Union countries: Bad timing, bad outcomes?5
Environmental regulation, political incentives, and mortality in China5
Stock market spillovers of global risks and hedging opportunities5
Inequality aversion and government health expenditure5
Households’ inflation expectations and concern about climate change5
Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy5
Can health passport overcome political hurdles to COVID-19 vaccination?5
Institutional design and spatial (in)equality — The Janus face of economic integration5
Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?5
Studying more to vote less. Education and voter turnout in Italy5
District versus at-large voting: Why district voting results in worse policy for minorities5
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–19775
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking5
Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage5
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China5
Letting third parties who suffer from petty corruption talk: Evidence from a collusive bribery experiment5
Does ethnic diversity always undermine pro-social behavior? Evidence from a laboratory experiment5
In Memoriam: Heinrich W. Ursprung 1951–20215
Kinship ties and female political participation: The case of Philippine mayors5
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy5
Causal factors of terrorist attacks on countries, and corresponding spill-overs between them5
Influence of political movement on fields of study: Evidence from Hong Kong5
Surfing the credit wave: Government popularity as driver of credit cycles5
Assessing the ethics of prison policies to ensure human rights compliance: Suicides and self-inflicted critical events in Italian prisons5
Regulation and income inequality in the United States4
Geopolitical risks and business fluctuations in Europe: A sectorial analysis4
Trust and punishment4
Editorial Board4
Politics of trade protection in an autocracy: Evidence from an EU tariff liberalization in Morocco4
Vertical fiscal imbalance and local fiscal indiscipline: Empirical evidence from China4
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?4
Political economy of taxation, debt ceilings, and growth4
One money, one voice? Evaluating ideological positions of euro area central banks4
Economic freedom and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation model with individual autonomy and national culture4
Early warning models for systemic banking crises: Can political indicators improve prediction?4
Assessing policy co-ordination in government: Text and network analysis of the UK's economic strategies4
Social expenditure composition and inequality: A dynamic panel threshold analysis for OECD countries4
Support for temporary protection of displaced populations in the EU: A conjoint experiment4
Electoral incentives to target investment in roads: Evidence from Italian municipalities4
Differences matter: The effect of coup types on physical integrity rights4
Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes4
Corporate tax competition: A meta-analysis4
Political alignment, centralisation, and the sense of government unpreparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic4
The likelihood of the referendum paradox for a given referendum result4
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?4
Don't shoot yourself in the foot! A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution and voting4
Campaigning for retirement: State teacher union campaign contributions and pension generosity4
Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion3
Making monetary policy in Poland: Are Polish hawks and doves different?3
Editorial Board3
Asymmetric technologies in contests3
Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy3
Obedience to the symbol of authority: Experimental evidence on the symbolic source of legitimate authority3
The financial market impact of ECB monetary policy press conferences — A text based approach3
Do large, sustained economic freedom reforms hurt or improve women's economic rights?3
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout3
A career like no one else can offer: On the conditions for two-party dominance3
Community forestry and its implications for land related disputes: Evidence from India3
Intergovernmental grants and local public finance: An empirical examination in Israel3
The growth-inequality debate revisited by rent-seeking theory: Some empirical evidence3
Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission3
Love on the rocks: The causal effects of separatist governments in Quebec3
Political alliances and trade: Europe in a polarized world3
Editorial Board3
The generation gap in direct democracy: Age vs. cohort effects3
Is Populism reversible? Evidence from Italian local elections during the pandemic3
Alternatives to plurality rule for single-winner elections: When do they make a difference?3
Unbundling the effect of political instability on income redistribution3
Defector Politicians and Economic Growth: Evidence from India3
The causal effects of rule of law & property rights on fiscal capacity3
A corruption risk indicator for public procurement3
Belonging or estrangement—The European Refugee Crisis and its effects on immigrant identity3
Is democracy good for growth? — Development at political transition time matters3
Predicting scandal3
The rate of discount on public investments with future bias in an altruistic overlapping generations model3
Fiscal rules, capital controls, and cross-border financial integration3
Islamist terrorism and the status of women3
Adopting the euro: A synthetic control approach3
Women’s voice on redistribution: From gender equality to equalizing taxation3
Does ethnic heterogeneity decrease workers’ effort in the presence of income redistribution? An experimental analysis3
The effect of international development association's (IDA) aid on conflict. A fuzzy regression discontinuity approach3
Special issue: Central banking in the 21st century - A crisis of accountability?3
Official fiscal forecasts in EU member states under the European Semester and Fiscal Compact – An empirical assessment3
Democracy favors access to credit of firms3
When citizens legalize drugs2
Populism and propagation of far-right extremism2
Crime and social expenditure: A political economic approach2
Does expert information affect citizens’ attitudes toward Corona policies? Evidence from Germany2
Should you want an educated mayor? Evidence from close elections in Italy2
Bias and careers: Evidence from the aid effectiveness literature2
How economic expectations shape preferences for national independence: Evidence from Greenland2
Framing of economic news and policy support during a pandemic: Evidence from a survey experiment2
Zero per cent accountability? How low interest rates save governments from electoral defeats2
Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China2
Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?2
Political budget cycle and the alignment effect: Evidence from South Korea2
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited2
Contest and resource allocation: An experimental analysis of entitlement and self-selection effects2
Explaining destinations and volumes of international arms transfers: A novel network Heckman selection model2
Foreign aid and the quality of economic institutions2
Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*2
Can gender quotas break the glass ceiling? Evidence from Italian municipal elections2
Corrigendum to “Incumbency and expectations of fiscal rule compliance: Evidence from surveys of German policy makers” [Eur. J. Polit. Econ. 72 (2022) 102093]2
Making and breaking coalitions: Strategic sophistication and prosociality in majority decisions2
Firms’ efficiency, exits and government procurement contracts2
Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China2
Voting under threat: Evidence from the 2020 French local elections2
Why do governments cut their deficits?2
Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic2
Can judicial efficiency improve territorial attractiveness to FDI? The Italian experience2
The value of a party: Local politics and the allocation of intergovernmental transfers2
Wage centralization and the political economy of budget deficits2
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment2
The persistence of political myths and ideologies2
Legislators in the crossfire: Strategic non-voting and the effect of transparency2
Corrigendum to “Defector politicians and economic growth: Evidence from India” [Eur. J. Polit. Econ. 79 (2023) 102442]1
Politically connected firms and privileged access to credit: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe1
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade1
The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes1
How do local governments and housing markets respond to demographic information shocks? Evidence from Japan’s Extinction Risk List1
Information effects in public spending preferences: Evidence from survey experiment in Poland1
Shock absorption via savings in the EMU: The role of international and public mechanisms1
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide1
Fiscal multipliers, public debt anchor and government credibility in a behavioural macroeconomic model1
Editorial Board1
Trust in the ECB: Drivers and consequences1
Political budget cycles revisited: Testing the signalling process1
Regime-based debt sustainability analysis: Evidence from euro area economies1
Terrorism and international economic policy1
A spatial analysis of local corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Chinese cities1
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization1
Politically influenced counterterrorism policy and welfare efficiency1
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?1
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions1
Sharing the gains of transition: Evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data1
Does increased credibility of elections lead to higher political competition? Evidence from India1
Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China1
Pandemic panic? Effects of health system capacity on firm confidence during COVID-191
The effect of ethnic diversity on the participation in social groups: Evidence from trade unions1
The political economy of IMF conditionality and central bank independence1
The Lernaean Hydra of populism1
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method1
Are social and environmental clauses a tool for favoritism? Analysis of French public procurement contracts1
Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve1
Broadband internet and attitudes toward migrants: Evidence from Spain1
Emigrants’ missing votes1
It is not easy being a Green party: Green politics as a normal good1
Women and local public finance1
Upstream effects of female political reservations1
Populists and fiscal policy: The case of Poland1
Italy: Immigration and the evolution of populism1
When do more selfish politicians manipulate less, not more?1
Don’t blame the government!? An assessment of debt forecast errors with a view to the EU Economic Governance Review1
Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve1
Overconfidence, income-ability gap, and preferences for income equality1
Using Machine Learning for measuring democracy: A practitioners guide and a new updated dataset for 186 countries from 1919 to 20191
Divided committees and strategic vagueness1
Illegal drugs and public corruption: Crack based evidence from California1
Investment in identity in the field-Nudging refugees’ integration effort1
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