Journal: European Journal of Political Economy

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Eur. Z. polit.

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Elsevier

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0176-2680
1873-5703

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Publications 1 - 10 of 19
  • “Mind the Gap?” Rising income inequality and individual trade policy preferences
    Item type: Journal Article
    Nguyen, Quynh (2017)
    European Journal of Political Economy
  • Has the EMU reduced wage growth and unemployment? Testing a model of trade union behavior
    Item type: Journal Article
    Mikosch, Heiner; Sturm, Jan-Egbert (2012)
    European Journal of Political Economy
  • The role of institutions in economic outcomes: Editorial introduction
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Economides, George; Egger, Peter (2009)
    European Journal of Political Economy
  • Political forecast cycles
    Item type: Journal Article
    Bohn, Frank; Veiga, Francisco J. (2021)
    European Journal of Political Economy
    A moral hazard model is used to show why overly optimistic revenue forecasts prior to elections can be optimal: Opportunistic governments can increase spending and appear more competent; ex post deficits emerge in election years, thereby producing political forecast cycles – as also found for US states in the empirical literature. Additionally, we obtain three theoretical results which are tested with panel data for Portuguese municipalities. The extent of manipulations is reduced when (i) the winning margin is expected to widen; (ii) the incumbent is not re-running; and/or (iii) the share of informed voters (proxied by education) goes up.
  • Business cycles and schooling
    Item type: Journal Article
    Koubi, Vally; Dellas, Harris (2003)
    European Journal of Political Economy
  • The influence of globalization on taxes and social policy: An empirical analysis for OECD countries
    Item type: Journal Article
    Dreher, Axel (2006)
    European Journal of Political Economy
  • Costs of change and political polarization
    Item type: Journal Article
    Gersbach, Hans; Muller, Philippe; Tejada, Oriol (2019)
    European Journal of Political Economy
  • Exposure to corruption and political participation: Evidence from Italian municipalities
    Item type: Journal Article
    Giommoni, Tommaso (2021)
    European Journal of Political Economy
    This paper aims to study the effects of exposure to corruption on all the aspects of political participation. Focusing on Italian municipalities in the period 1999–2014, we generate a daily and local measure of exposure to corruption, screening newspaper articles of the main Italian press agency. We concentrate on local elections and, in an event-study analysis, we find three main results. First, corruption exposure affects citizens' participation in election by reducing voter turnout. Second, corruption impacts on politicians’ participation: the number of candidates and electoral lists decreases after a scandal and candidates with political tenure are more likely to run. Finally, these changes affect local political outcomes as tenured politicians are more likely to be elected, while freshmen lose ground. These results suggest that exposure to corruption has general and negative effects on political participation, leading people to lose interest in politics.
  • Sharks and minnows in a shoal of words: Measuring latent ideological positions based on text mining techniques
    Item type: Journal Article
    Diaf, Sami; Döpke, Jörg; Fritsche, Ulrich; et al. (2022)
    European Journal of Political Economy
    We scale theoretical/ideological positions of economic research institutes over debates. Using only parts of German research institutes’ business cycle reports that deal with economic policy advice as an example, we extract sections from these reports dealing with monetary and fiscal policy issues from 1999 to 2020. To these corpora, we apply methods of unsupervised text scaling (Slapin and Proksch, 2008; Lauderdale and Herzog, 2016), namely Wordfish and Wordshoal. Roughly, results are in line with common sense in the public policy discourse. For monetary policy texts, we observe a strong, but short-lived consensus in debate-specific positions at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and a larger polarization thereafter compared to the sample period before. For the fiscal policy text corpus, the polarization was similarly high before and after the crisis and decreases somewhat during the COVID-19 pandemic. For both policy areas, the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, and the Institute for World Economics (IfW), Kiel, tend to be the most diverse institutes within the spectrum of latent ideological positions. We argue that text-mining techniques might be useful to scale underlying ideological positions in policy-related publications.
  • Tax competition and income sorting
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Somogyi, Frank; Sturm, Jan-Egbert (2011)
    European Journal of Political Economy
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