Access Statistics for Thushyanthan Baskaran

Author contact details at EconPapers.

Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
A Tale of Five PIIGS: Soft Budget Constraints and the EMU Sovereign Debt Crises 0 0 0 137 5 11 16 422
Appointed Public Officials and Local Favoritism: Evidence from the German States 0 0 0 35 4 8 11 164
Appointed Public Officials and Local Favoritism: Evidence from the German States 0 1 1 1 9 14 18 39
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states 0 0 0 25 12 15 16 72
Bailouts and austerity 0 0 0 53 8 11 14 159
Coalition governments, cabinet size, and the common pool problem: Evidence from the German states 0 0 0 101 4 9 13 431
Competitively Elected Women as Policy Makers 0 0 1 186 10 20 37 737
Creative Destruction and Fiscal Institutions: A Long-Run Case Study of Three Regions 0 0 0 110 4 5 6 372
Depressing Dependence? Transfers and Economic Growth in the German States, 1975-2005 0 0 0 25 4 11 16 109
Depressing dependence? Transfers and economic growth in the German States, 1975-2005 0 0 0 22 9 12 15 70
Did the Maastricht treaty matter for macroeconomic performance? 0 0 1 96 2 4 9 334
Direct democracy and local public finances under cooperative federalism 0 0 0 91 3 7 8 310
Do bailouts buy votes? Evidence from a panel of Hessian municipalities 0 0 1 41 7 9 13 123
Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state 0 1 1 56 7 14 20 140
Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state 0 0 2 65 3 12 21 170
Do municipal mergers result in scale economies? Evidence from a German federal state 0 0 0 34 2 6 14 185
Does the election of a female leader clear the way for more women in politics? 1 1 3 229 13 19 43 895
Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany 0 0 0 20 5 9 11 91
Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions: quasi-experimental evidence from Germany 0 0 1 29 0 5 9 120
Electoral thresholds and political outcomes: Quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Germany 0 0 0 53 1 5 10 118
Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications 0 0 0 10 2 4 11 35
Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications 0 0 0 1 1 3 4 9
Favoritism and firms: Micro evidence and macro implications 0 0 0 13 2 5 11 60
Favoritism by the governing elite 0 0 0 10 3 4 7 33
Favoritism by the governing elite 0 0 0 2 0 3 5 7
Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in OECD Countries: Is there a Relationship? 0 0 1 471 6 11 17 1,150
Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization and Economic Growth: Survey and Meta-Analysis 2 2 3 277 8 20 30 771
Fiscal capacity and government accountability in sub-Saharan Africa 0 1 1 88 2 3 6 206
Fiscal decentralization, ideology, and the size of the public sector 0 1 1 91 3 10 13 305
Fiscal federalism, decentralization and economic growth: A meta-analysis 1 5 12 144 11 39 64 532
Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis 0 0 0 112 9 14 17 319
Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis 0 0 0 70 2 4 6 204
Globalization, Redistribution, and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures 0 0 0 99 5 10 11 447
Gold mining and education: a long-run resource curse in Africa? 0 0 1 102 9 16 26 318
Has Globalization Affected Collective Bargaining? An Empirical Test, 1980-2009 0 0 2 329 6 14 18 1,958
Identifying local tax mimicking: Administrative borders and a policy reform 0 0 0 88 9 12 15 201
Ideology and fiscal policy: quasi-experimental evidence from the German States 0 0 0 139 3 6 6 249
Monetary Integration, Soft Budget Constraints, and the EMU Sovereign Debt Crises 1 1 1 176 5 9 19 816
On the Link Between Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt in OECD Countries 0 0 0 277 1 5 10 754
Political Selection When Uncertainty Is High 0 0 3 27 10 15 33 110
Political alignment and intergovernmental transfers in parliamentary systems: Evidence from Germany 0 0 2 120 1 5 20 390
Political favoritism and internal migration in Benin 0 0 0 14 5 10 14 27
Populist Policymakers 0 7 15 15 5 14 18 18
Public Education Spending in a Globalized World: Is there a Shift in Priorities Across Educational Stages? 0 0 0 169 4 9 17 596
Re-evaluating the economic costs of conflicts 0 0 0 30 2 5 7 126
Regional favoritism and human capital accumulation in Africa 0 0 0 11 3 7 9 40
Regional redistribution of mineral resource wealth in Africa 0 0 0 23 3 7 11 52
Revenue decentralization and inflation: a re-evaluation 0 0 0 85 4 7 7 236
Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 12 21 46 48 106
Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 28 3 3 4 113
Scale-Free Networks in International Trade 0 0 0 200 2 4 6 555
Soft budget constraints and strategic interactions in subnational borrowing: Evidence from the German States, 1975-2005 0 0 0 151 4 9 10 450
Subnational border reforms and economic development in Africa 0 0 0 58 1 4 8 168
Supranational Integration And National Reorganization 0 0 2 52 3 7 10 414
Tax decentralization and public deficits in OECD countries 0 0 0 133 3 4 7 306
Tax mimicking in the short- and long-run: Evidence from German reunification 0 0 0 47 5 7 8 130
Tax mimicking in the short- and the long-run: Evidence from German reunification 0 0 0 24 8 13 18 71
Taxation and democratization 0 0 1 101 2 4 10 246
The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections 0 0 0 10 5 9 10 45
The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 9
The Heckscher-Ohlin Model and the Network Structure of International Trade 0 0 1 129 3 8 13 543
The economics and empirics of tax competition: A survey 0 0 0 183 3 5 8 383
The effect of direct democracy on the level and structure of local taxes 0 0 0 84 20 23 28 187
The flypaper effect: evidence from a natural experiment in Hesse 0 0 1 145 4 7 18 361
The political economy of special needs transfers: Evidence from Bavarian municipalities, 1993-2011 0 0 0 31 3 3 5 89
The revenue and base effects of local tax hikes: Evidence from a quasi-experiment 0 0 0 71 4 10 18 202
Women Legislators and Economic Performance 0 0 0 4 7 9 16 31
Women Legislators and Economic Performance 0 0 0 45 5 15 20 170
Women Legislators and Economic Performance 0 1 1 36 4 13 18 98
Women Legislators and Economic Performance 0 0 0 27 18 66 68 123
Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers 0 2 4 43 9 19 30 71
Women legislators and economic performance 0 0 1 20 6 12 21 160
Young versus Old Politicians in Local Politics 1 2 8 25 3 13 35 85
Total Working Papers 6 25 72 6,064 383 792 1,192 20,146


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states 1 1 2 12 5 9 18 76
Coalition governments, cabinet size, and the common pool problem: Evidence from the German states 0 0 1 38 5 8 13 133
Creative destruction and fiscal institutions: a long-run case study of three regions 0 0 1 24 1 2 3 118
Depressing dependence? Transfers and economic growth in the German states, 1975–2005 0 1 2 10 3 8 13 60
Did the Maastricht treaty matter for macroeconomic performance? A difference‐in‐difference investigation 0 0 1 61 2 2 6 189
Direct Democracy and Local Public Finances under Cooperative Federalism 0 1 1 2 0 5 5 39
Distributive spending and presidential partisan politics 0 0 0 6 5 11 20 58
Do bailouts buy votes? Evidence from a panel of Hessian municipalities 0 0 0 9 2 4 6 79
Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state 0 1 4 70 5 13 23 237
Does the Election of a Female Leader Clear the Way for More Women in Politics? 0 0 1 48 2 5 15 177
Election cycles and electricity provision: Evidence from a quasi-experiment with Indian special elections 1 2 5 76 4 9 27 281
Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany 0 0 1 10 6 10 13 94
Electoral thresholds and political representation 1 4 5 12 5 14 21 84
FISCAL FEDERALISM, DECENTRALIZATION, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A META-ANALYSIS 0 0 0 36 3 9 12 164
Federalism, Budget Deficits and Public Debt: On the Reform of Germany's Fiscal Constitution 0 0 2 177 2 3 12 506
Fiscal Capacity and the Quality of Government in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 1 2 65 2 6 13 230
Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in OECD Countries 0 2 6 103 4 10 20 269
Fiscal decentralization, ideology, and the size of the public sector 0 0 1 62 2 4 8 230
Fiscal interactions in the short and the long run: evidence from German reunification 0 0 2 8 1 3 5 22
Gold Mining and Education: A Long-run Resource Curse in Africa? 1 2 7 31 8 20 37 141
Government Impartiality and Sustained Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 0 18 13 20 25 132
Has Globalisation Affected Collective Bargaining? An Empirical Test, 1980–2009 0 0 0 11 4 5 9 82
Identifying local tax mimicking with administrative borders and a policy reform 0 0 3 106 3 5 18 321
Intergovernmental Transfers, Local Fiscal Policy, and the Flypaper Effect: Evidence from a German State 0 0 4 114 0 5 16 283
Local fiscal policy after a bailout: austerity or soft budget constraints? 0 1 2 24 7 9 12 82
Monetary integration, soft budget constraints, and the EMU sovereign debt crises 0 0 1 4 13 16 21 86
On the link between fiscal decentralization and public debt in OECD countries 0 2 3 55 2 9 12 194
Political alignment and intergovernmental transfers in parliamentary systems: evidence from Germany 0 1 2 22 2 8 14 104
Political selection when uncertainty is high 0 0 2 2 3 7 10 16
Public education spending in a globalized world 0 0 2 38 3 9 18 211
Regional development and national identity in sub-Saharan Africa 1 2 4 42 5 12 17 225
Revenue decentralization and inflation: A re-evaluation 0 0 1 14 0 1 4 61
Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel 0 1 2 15 3 7 13 100
Soft budget constraints and strategic interactions in subnational borrowing: Evidence from the German States, 1975–2005 1 1 4 87 6 9 24 318
Supranational integration and national reorganization: On the Maastricht treaty’s impact on fiscal decentralization in EU countries 0 0 0 27 2 5 6 115
Tax Decentralization and Public Deficits in OECD Countries 0 0 0 15 11 16 17 91
Tax Innovations and Public Revenues in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 1 58 1 3 7 175
Taxation and Democratization 0 0 0 28 1 3 8 159
The Heckscher-Ohlin model and the network structure of international trade 0 0 3 68 8 12 27 277
The effect of direct democracy on the level and structure of local taxes 0 0 0 13 2 5 7 57
The gender recontest gap in elections 0 0 4 30 5 14 44 166
The regional economics of mineral resource wealth in Africa 0 0 1 2 14 17 27 30
The revenue and base effects of local tax hikes: evidence from a quasi-experiment 0 0 1 9 0 1 5 30
Women legislators and economic performance 1 1 4 18 5 10 34 66
Young versus old politicians and public spending priorities 0 1 1 3 6 18 26 33
Total Journal Articles 7 25 89 1,683 186 381 711 6,601


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
Creative Destruction and Fiscal Institutions: A Long-Run Case Study of Three Regions 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 14
Total Chapters 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 14


Statistics updated 2026-02-12