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A MODEL OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES 0 0 0 0 0 5 23 239
A Model of the Political Economy of the United States 0 4 17 64 2 11 50 266
A Positive Theory of Fiscal Deficits and Government Debt in a Democracy 1 10 39 315 4 18 93 627
A Positive Theory of Fiscal Deficits and Government Debt in a Democracy 2 7 24 93 2 13 53 326
Ambiguity and Extremism in Elections 2 4 36 36 2 4 61 61
An Overlapping Generations Model of Electoral Competition 3 5 24 106 4 8 50 375
Artificial States 0 3 12 62 3 16 66 166
Artificial States 2 6 21 103 7 16 65 265
Artificial States 0 3 12 72 1 10 56 230
Budget Deficits and Budget Institutions 6 33 106 834 14 59 169 1,525
Budget Deficits and Budget Institutions 0 0 0 2 4 14 68 482
Budget Institutions and Fiscal Performance in Latin America 6 16 58 396 12 30 122 829
Bureaucrats or Politicians? 0 1 3 196 4 8 24 374
Bureaucrats or Politicians? 1 4 7 55 2 8 26 194
Bureaucrats or Politicians? 2 4 23 60 4 10 46 137
Bureaucrats or Politicians? 1 1 7 154 2 4 21 332
Bureaucrats or Politicians? 2 10 41 79 16 50 140 254
Choosing (And Reneging On) Exchange Rate Regimes 4 7 24 49 6 13 62 181
Choosing (and reneging on) exchange rate regimes 0 2 6 137 2 9 24 390
Choosing Electoral Rules: Theory and Evidence from US Cities 0 3 8 92 0 7 29 220
Choosing Electoral rules: Theory and Evidence from US Cities 0 4 13 36 1 8 42 122
Corruption, Inequality and Fairness 0 1 11 130 2 5 42 360
Corruption, Inequality and Fairness 1 10 49 123 5 25 115 287
Currency Unions 2 12 40 319 3 22 78 611
Democracy, Technology, and Growth 3 10 28 174 8 28 76 256
Distributive Politics and Economic Growth 2 11 40 640 11 47 168 1,514
Distributive Politics and Economic Growth 7 20 99 798 13 45 223 1,657
Divorce, Fertility and the Shot Gun Marriage 0 0 4 38 1 3 27 149
Divorce, Fertility and the Shot Gun Marriage 0 1 6 48 1 9 37 227
Divorce, fertility and the shot gun marriage 1 5 14 44 5 13 60 196
Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid? 14 46 123 547 26 115 356 1,458
Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy 2 11 109 109 3 17 127 127
Economic Integration and Political Disintegration 7 15 36 394 9 26 99 1,591
Economic Risk and Political Risk in Fiscal Unions 1 6 15 150 8 22 51 607
Endogenous Political Institutions 3 10 35 209 5 16 72 473
Endogenous Political Institutions 0 2 12 109 1 3 34 324
Endogenous Political Institutions 0 8 32 66 4 15 69 190
Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance 5 20 93 422 14 55 237 993
Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance 5 24 77 157 19 75 197 375
External Debt, Capital Flight and Political Risk 3 3 10 216 7 12 40 413
External Debt, Capital Flight and Political Risk 4 8 24 287 15 30 82 815
External Debt, Capital Flight and Political Risk 2 8 29 234 6 18 92 588
FISCAL ADJUSTMENT, THE REAL EXCHANGE RATE AND AUSTRALIAN'S EXTERNAL IMBALANCE 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 807
Fairness and Redistribution 0 8 26 121 2 13 60 209
Fairness and Redistribution 5 20 61 279 7 34 131 547
Fairness and Redistribution: U.S. versus Europe 2 13 37 299 6 37 122 946
Fairness and Redistribution: US versus Europe 3 5 40 89 7 14 120 271
Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries - Composition and Macroeconomic Effects 0 0 0 0 3 15 66 369
Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries: Composition and Macroeconomic Effects 7 43 123 814 15 65 207 1,973
Fiscal Expansions and Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries 7 18 66 566 9 28 101 1,005
Fiscal Policy, Profits, and Investment 4 12 50 410 8 24 96 987
Fiscal Policy, Profits, and Investment 0 6 21 222 2 17 60 797
Fractionalization 3 12 39 117 5 21 106 286
Fractionalization 5 23 72 573 11 65 212 1,613
Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores 1 6 23 61 1 12 81 169
Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores 4 9 31 50 10 28 100 139
Good bye Lenin (or not?): The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences 1 6 19 139 3 26 149 674
Good bye Lenin (or not?): The effect of Communism on people's preferences 3 16 37 102 15 80 251 571
Income Distribution, Political Instability, and Investment 11 34 139 951 24 77 297 2,027
Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different? 5 13 56 138 9 29 113 308
Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different? 1 3 14 278 2 10 55 814
Institutional Rules for Federations 1 1 6 198 1 3 14 619
Institutional Rules for Federations 0 2 6 27 1 10 36 104
International Conflict, Defense Spending and the Size of Countries 4 5 10 245 8 23 75 1,624
International Unions 0 0 11 30 2 3 28 78
Is Europe Going Too Far? 0 2 7 255 4 11 33 592
MODERATING ELECTIONS 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 59
Macroeconomic Policy and Elections in OECD Democracies 4 12 46 257 6 23 104 575
Macroeconomic Policy and Elections in OECD Democracies 1 4 28 203 8 17 60 804
Menus of Linear Income Tax Schedules 0 0 5 19 1 1 14 417
Moderating Elections 0 0 3 13 1 4 9 52
On the Feasibility of a One or Multi-Speed European Monetary Union 1 2 5 27 5 6 21 134
On the Feasibility of a One- or Multi-Speed European Monetary Union 2 2 6 49 4 7 22 239
On the Number and Size of Nations 8 30 93 657 13 50 235 1,954
Openness, Country Size and the Government 3 6 25 250 6 13 53 787
Optimal Currency Areas 3 15 65 189 5 24 110 343
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE AND DEBT MANAGEMENT: A MODEL AND A CASE STUDY OF ITALY 0 0 0 0 3 9 36 615
Participation in Heterogeneous Communities 3 12 49 196 4 19 98 520
Participation in Heterogeneous Communities 2 11 41 288 3 17 83 833
Partisan Cycles in Congressional Elections and the Macroeconomy 0 3 13 47 4 10 42 165
Political Cycles in OECD Economies 4 14 73 249 14 54 253 631
Political Cycles in OECD Economies 6 14 41 222 11 41 128 637
Political Instability and Economic Growth 23 62 213 794 45 130 502 1,564
Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities 0 0 7 61 2 9 44 362
Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities 0 1 15 30 6 12 58 116
Political Parties and the Business Cycle in the United States, 1948-1984 0 12 54 143 5 27 133 490
Political models of macroeconomic policy and fiscal reform 3 17 53 140 6 42 147 497
Preferences for Redistribution 6 37 38 38 9 42 46 46
Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities 1 9 42 66 8 30 106 184
Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities 2 6 12 109 6 16 43 369
Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities 6 26 64 258 12 44 124 793
Public Confidence and Debt Management: A Model and A Case Study of Italy 4 13 29 171 8 19 58 411
Public Confidence and Debt Management: A Model and a Case Study of Italy 2 7 16 136 6 19 60 484
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 4 19 267 6 22 91 1,039
Public goods and ethnic divisions 5 20 90 709 14 51 194 2,839
Redistribution Through Public Employment - The Case of Italy 0 0 0 30 2 7 33 153
Redistribution Through Public Employment: The Case of Italy 0 2 11 121 4 12 45 418
Redistributive Public Employment 25 28 43 148 120 128 162 613
Regulation and Investment 1 7 39 261 2 15 84 669
Regulation and Investment 2 7 29 293 5 14 59 622
Regulation and Investment 1 1 10 190 3 4 32 392
Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries 1 3 24 24 5 18 81 81
Technology and Labor Regulations 0 6 14 64 5 66 101 231
The Costs and Benefits of Fiscal Rules: Evidence from U.S. States 5 15 55 261 8 34 123 573
The Determinants of Trust 2 10 41 406 5 23 104 799
The Euro and Structural Reforms 1 7 54 54 2 16 58 58
The European Central Bank: Reshaping Monetary Politics in Europe 1 5 18 125 5 17 50 377
The European Central Bank: Reshaping Monetary Politics in Europe 1 2 14 123 2 10 37 400
The European Union: A Politically Incorrect View 1 6 34 74 6 18 77 178
The European Union: A Politically Incorrect View 4 6 25 298 9 24 92 718
The Political Economy of Budget Deficits 0 0 0 1 13 43 171 678
The Political Economy of Budget Deficits 19 78 202 1,262 29 114 324 1,909
The Political Economy of Capital Controls 2 14 59 359 9 27 142 865
The Political Economy of Capital Controls 0 0 0 1 4 12 49 588
The Political Economy of Capital Controls 6 10 31 162 10 15 58 271
The Political Economy of International Unions 0 4 18 48 4 10 57 154
The Political Economy of International Unions 0 1 6 273 0 4 19 1,004
The Political Economy of the Budget Surplus in the U.S 0 0 8 84 0 7 24 261
The Politics of Ambiguity 1 1 7 64 2 5 31 259
The Power of the Family 1 8 39 137 11 35 121 301
The Size of Countries: Does it Matter? 2 8 39 90 5 13 107 229
The Welfare State and Competitiveness 8 11 35 269 10 19 61 550
Trade, Growth, and the Size of Countries 4 12 48 152 9 24 114 332
Voting on the Budget Deficit 0 0 9 144 2 6 35 621
Voting on the Budget Deficit 2 5 24 124 4 13 64 520
Voting on the Budget Deficit 2 8 21 167 2 8 41 314
War, Peace and the Size of Countries 3 4 16 54 10 19 74 193
What Does the European Union Do? 2 12 40 124 23 61 189 448
What Does the European Union Do? 1 1 6 294 12 25 78 1,581
What Does the European Union Do? 2 8 35 82 21 69 239 443
Who Adjusts and When? On the Political Economy of Reforms 2 7 30 137 3 9 53 295
Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why? 23 95 289 2,246 46 180 590 5,144
Who adjusts and when? On the political economy of reforms 3 14 45 114 5 22 83 239
Why Are Stabilizations Delayed? 0 0 0 1 2 4 34 419
Why Are There So Many Divided Senate Delegations? 1 1 2 18 2 2 13 114
Why Do Politicians Delegate? 0 0 5 98 1 4 20 195
Why Doesn't The US Have a European-Style Welfare State? 4 25 83 171 17 71 217 432
Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System? 3 5 19 173 5 21 75 704
Why Is Fiscal Policy Often Procyclical? 2 8 27 78 5 16 53 248
Why are Stabilizations Delayed? 1 6 18 200 2 11 53 435
Why do Politicians Delegate? 1 4 13 89 1 4 15 127
Why do Politicians Delegate? 0 3 16 50 1 6 45 125
Why is Fiscal Policy Often Procyclical? 4 11 31 191 13 24 56 320
Why is Fiscal Policy often Procyclical? 2 9 39 141 8 36 129 453
Why is fiscal policy often procyclical? 0 6 30 74 2 12 61 192
Why is fiscal policy often procyclical? 0 2 14 106 0 5 24 136
Work and Leisure in the U. S. and Europe: Why so Different? 5 19 94 215 16 51 246 573
Total Working Papers 401 1,459 5,215 30,172 1,127 3,742 13,872 84,248
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A Positive Theory of Fiscal Deficits and Government Debt 1 13 45 381 5 28 95 810
A Theory of Divided Government 2 8 60 346 7 28 216 2,181
Alternative monetary regimes: A review essay 0 1 3 9 0 2 6 27
An overlapping generations model of electoral competition 2 3 19 46 4 9 32 91
Budget institutions and fiscal performance in Latin America 2 5 19 71 2 8 42 195
Central Bank Independence and Macroeconomic Performance: Some Comparative Evidence 23 128 330 2,552 75 271 728 5,759
Choosing (and Reneging on) Exchange Rate Regimes 0 4 17 68 4 14 63 212
Conflict, defense spending, and the number of nations 4 5 12 43 5 8 36 144
Corruption, inequality, and fairness 2 6 19 47 3 8 38 141
Credibility and politics 2 3 29 73 6 16 65 154
Currency Unions 3 11 50 460 5 22 98 1,165
Deuda externa, fuga de capitales y riesgo político 0 0 0 0 6 11 43 118
Distributive Politics and Economic Growth 21 87 378 2,481 47 197 872 7,281
Dollarization 2 10 65 305 7 31 217 748
Economic Integration and Political Disintegration 3 17 56 359 16 79 288 1,484
Economic Risk and Political Risk in Fiscal Unions 0 3 9 52 2 6 20 203
Electoral business cycle in industrial democracies 2 11 57 165 4 32 124 345
Endogenous Political Institutions 4 22 93 316 6 35 183 798
Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance 5 18 72 223 10 37 191 555
European Financial Market Integration 0 3 8 64 1 4 12 157
External debt, capital flight and political risk 2 5 21 74 5 11 42 158
Fiscal Discipline and the Budget Process 7 23 150 458 18 55 385 1,010
Fractionalization 11 60 147 570 27 128 382 1,448
Global macroeconomics: Ralph Bryant and Richard Portes, eds., (Macmillan Press, in association with CEPR, London, 1987) pp. 256, $55.00 0 0 3 11 0 0 16 59
Income distribution, political instability, and investment 15 36 128 561 24 65 213 1,048
Independent Central Banks: Low Inflation at No Cost? 1 6 42 517 5 15 97 1,123
Inequality and happiness: are Europeans and Americans different? 2 18 71 241 13 46 202 616
International Unions 0 0 3 22 3 7 21 112
Is Europe going too far? 1 2 11 93 1 4 26 196
Joseph Schumpeter Lecture: The Size of Countries: Does it Matter? 0 4 20 55 1 9 49 150
Macroeconomic Policy in a Two-Party System as a Repeated Game 9 25 62 526 11 35 98 1,647
On the Number and Size of Nations 0 0 0 4 7 32 134 883
Openness, country size and government 1 7 44 164 2 11 79 334
Participation In Heterogeneous Communities 6 21 83 381 15 52 214 1,093
Polarized platforms and moderate policies with checks and balances 1 1 8 18 1 2 16 52
Political Cycles in OECD Economies 2 5 22 163 4 13 75 420
Political Instability and Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 117 500 2,175 6,114
Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities 0 0 32 127 2 7 111 448
Political Parties and the Business Cycle in the United States, 1948-1984 0 7 21 77 3 12 62 304
Positive and normative theories of public debt and inflation in historical perspective 3 10 22 126 4 17 53 366
Preferences for redistribution in the land of opportunities 4 11 38 135 10 21 78 313
Public Goods And Ethnic Divisions 0 8 60 673 14 53 254 2,232
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 10 41 1 4 22 151
Regulation And Investment 10 26 85 311 22 49 210 657
Reply to Blankart and Koester's Political Economics versus Public Choice Two Views of Political Economy in Competition 2 8 19 57 4 13 48 166
Rules and Discretion with Noncoordinated Monetary and Fiscal Policies 0 0 0 0 3 20 57 676
Tales of fiscal adjustment 4 22 59 103 10 36 116 205
Taxation and redistribution in an open economy 2 2 11 50 3 4 17 108
The 1992, 1994 and 1996 Elections: A Comment and a Forecast 0 0 0 0 5 6 20 192
The European Union: A Politically Incorrect View 1 3 30 99 2 5 81 295
The Political Economy of Growth: A Critical Survey of the Recent Literature 0 0 0 12 30 62 221 1,539
The Political Economy of the Budget Surplus in the United States 2 4 29 181 2 9 129 892
The Political Economy of the Budget Surplus in the United States: Response 0 0 5 38 0 0 14 200
The Politics of Ambiguity 1 7 30 161 5 25 113 582
The Welfare State and Competitiveness 3 9 19 218 3 10 40 503
Togetheror separately? Issues on the costs and benefits of political and fiscal unions 2 4 7 24 2 5 13 79
Voting on the Budget Deficit 2 13 50 287 3 22 100 930
War, peace, and the size of countries 4 4 14 62 5 6 25 157
What does the European Union do? 2 10 33 139 9 39 229 727
Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why? 29 114 397 1,867 50 197 728 3,526
Who trusts others? 13 60 225 1,179 26 114 422 2,251
Why Are Stabilizations Delayed? 9 21 62 538 14 48 157 1,350
Total Journal Articles 229 914 3,414 18,424 701 2,615 10,913 57,880


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Budget Deficits and Budget Institutions 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Contributors, Indices 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Front matter, table of contents, preface 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Introduction to "Politics and Economics in the Eighties" 1 1 1 1 6 13 13 13
Macroeconomics and Politics 2 6 6 6 2 7 7 7
Optimal Currency Areas 3 9 9 9 6 13 13 13
Trade, Growth and the Size of Countries 5 10 46 167 31 70 373 1,008
Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different? 1 3 3 3 4 6 6 6
Total Chapters 13 30 66 187 51 111 414 1,049


Statistics updated 2009-07-03