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A Tale of Five PIIGS: Soft Budget Constraints and the EMU Sovereign Debt Crises 0 0 0 137 6 10 26 432
Appointed Public Officials and Local Favoritism: Evidence from the German States 0 0 1 1 0 1 18 40
Appointed Public Officials and Local Favoritism: Evidence from the German States 0 0 0 35 0 0 10 164
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states 0 0 0 25 4 6 22 78
Bailouts and austerity 0 0 0 53 5 5 19 164
Coalition governments, cabinet size, and the common pool problem: Evidence from the German states 0 0 0 101 3 4 17 435
Competitively Elected Women as Policy Makers 0 1 1 187 4 11 42 748
Creative Destruction and Fiscal Institutions: A Long-Run Case Study of Three Regions 0 0 0 110 1 7 13 379
Depressing Dependence? Transfers and Economic Growth in the German States, 1975-2005 0 0 0 25 1 3 19 112
Depressing dependence? Transfers and economic growth in the German States, 1975-2005 0 0 0 22 3 7 21 77
Did the Maastricht treaty matter for macroeconomic performance? 0 0 1 96 1 7 15 341
Direct democracy and local public finances under cooperative federalism 0 0 0 91 0 2 10 312
Do bailouts buy votes? Evidence from a panel of Hessian municipalities 0 0 1 41 1 7 20 130
Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state 0 0 2 65 4 7 26 177
Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state 1 1 2 57 3 7 25 147
Do municipal mergers result in scale economies? Evidence from a German federal state 0 0 0 34 2 3 17 188
Does the election of a female leader clear the way for more women in politics? 0 2 3 231 3 14 48 909
Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany 0 0 0 20 2 6 16 97
Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions: quasi-experimental evidence from Germany 0 0 0 29 0 1 9 121
Electoral thresholds and political outcomes: Quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Germany 0 0 0 53 1 2 11 120
Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications 0 0 0 10 3 8 17 43
Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications 0 0 0 1 3 6 9 15
Favoritism and firms: Micro evidence and macro implications 0 1 1 14 4 9 19 69
Favoritism by the governing elite 0 0 0 10 5 9 16 42
Favoritism by the governing elite 0 0 0 2 1 6 10 13
Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in OECD Countries: Is there a Relationship? 0 1 2 472 1 6 22 1,156
Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization and Economic Growth: Survey and Meta-Analysis 0 1 4 278 1 4 34 775
Fiscal capacity and government accountability in sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 1 88 3 5 11 211
Fiscal decentralization, ideology, and the size of the public sector 0 0 1 91 0 0 11 305
Fiscal federalism, decentralization and economic growth: A meta-analysis 0 2 12 146 4 11 66 543
Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis 0 0 0 70 4 5 9 209
Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis 0 0 0 112 3 4 21 323
Globalization, Redistribution, and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures 0 0 0 99 3 4 15 451
Gold mining and education: a long-run resource curse in Africa? 0 0 1 102 4 12 35 330
Has Globalization Affected Collective Bargaining? An Empirical Test, 1980-2009 0 0 1 329 1 1 17 1,959
Identifying local tax mimicking: Administrative borders and a policy reform 0 0 0 88 0 4 18 205
Ideology and fiscal policy: quasi-experimental evidence from the German States 0 0 0 139 3 8 14 257
Monetary Integration, Soft Budget Constraints, and the EMU Sovereign Debt Crises 0 0 1 176 3 7 25 823
On the Link Between Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt in OECD Countries 0 0 0 277 3 8 18 762
Political Selection When Uncertainty Is High 0 0 1 27 5 9 37 119
Political alignment and intergovernmental transfers in parliamentary systems: Evidence from Germany 0 0 1 120 2 9 23 399
Political favoritism and internal migration in Benin 0 0 0 14 3 5 19 32
Populist Policymakers 0 0 15 15 1 2 20 20
Public Education Spending in a Globalized World: Is there a Shift in Priorities Across Educational Stages? 0 0 0 169 1 2 17 598
Re-evaluating the economic costs of conflicts 0 0 0 30 0 0 7 126
Regional favoritism and human capital accumulation in Africa 0 0 0 11 7 8 17 48
Regional redistribution of mineral resource wealth in Africa 0 0 0 23 1 4 14 56
Revenue decentralization and inflation: a re-evaluation 0 0 0 85 3 6 13 242
Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 12 1 1 49 107
Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 28 2 4 8 117
Scale-Free Networks in International Trade 0 0 0 200 4 7 12 562
Soft budget constraints and strategic interactions in subnational borrowing: Evidence from the German States, 1975-2005 0 0 0 151 2 13 23 463
Subnational border reforms and economic development in Africa 0 0 0 58 3 4 12 172
Supranational Integration And National Reorganization 0 0 2 52 2 3 13 417
Tax decentralization and public deficits in OECD countries 0 0 0 133 2 6 12 312
Tax mimicking in the short- and long-run: Evidence from German reunification 0 0 0 47 5 6 13 136
Tax mimicking in the short- and the long-run: Evidence from German reunification 0 0 0 24 3 4 22 75
Taxation and democratization 0 0 1 101 0 2 9 248
The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections 0 0 0 10 3 6 16 51
The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections 0 0 0 3 2 4 7 13
The Heckscher-Ohlin Model and the Network Structure of International Trade 0 0 1 129 1 7 19 550
The economics and empirics of tax competition: A survey 0 0 0 183 0 0 8 383
The effect of direct democracy on the level and structure of local taxes 0 0 0 84 7 13 41 200
The flypaper effect: evidence from a natural experiment in Hesse 0 1 2 146 5 8 23 369
The political economy of special needs transfers: Evidence from Bavarian municipalities, 1993-2011 0 0 0 31 0 1 5 90
The revenue and base effects of local tax hikes: Evidence from a quasi-experiment 0 1 1 72 4 7 21 209
Women Legislators and Economic Performance 0 0 0 45 3 5 25 175
Women Legislators and Economic Performance 0 0 1 36 5 7 23 105
Women Legislators and Economic Performance 1 1 1 5 5 11 22 42
Women Legislators and Economic Performance 0 0 0 27 4 10 77 133
Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers 0 1 5 44 6 11 39 82
Women legislators and economic performance 0 0 1 20 5 11 31 171
Young versus Old Politicians in Local Politics 0 0 6 25 2 8 38 93
Total Working Papers 2 13 73 6,077 192 431 1,526 20,577


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Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states 0 0 2 12 1 2 19 78
Coalition governments, cabinet size, and the common pool problem: Evidence from the German states 0 0 1 38 3 6 18 139
Creative destruction and fiscal institutions: a long-run case study of three regions 0 1 1 25 4 7 9 125
Depressing dependence? Transfers and economic growth in the German states, 1975–2005 0 1 3 11 5 8 20 68
Did the Maastricht treaty matter for macroeconomic performance? A difference‐in‐difference investigation 0 0 1 61 1 3 9 192
Direct Democracy and Local Public Finances under Cooperative Federalism 0 0 1 2 1 3 8 42
Distributive spending and presidential partisan politics 0 0 0 6 3 4 24 62
Do bailouts buy votes? Evidence from a panel of Hessian municipalities 0 0 0 9 2 3 8 82
Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state 0 3 6 73 2 5 25 242
Does the Election of a Female Leader Clear the Way for More Women in Politics? 0 1 2 49 4 9 21 186
Election cycles and electricity provision: Evidence from a quasi-experiment with Indian special elections 2 3 8 79 4 21 44 302
Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany 0 0 1 10 0 1 14 95
Electoral thresholds and political representation 1 1 6 13 3 7 26 91
FISCAL FEDERALISM, DECENTRALIZATION, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A META-ANALYSIS 0 1 1 37 0 4 16 168
Federalism, Budget Deficits and Public Debt: On the Reform of Germany's Fiscal Constitution 0 0 2 177 3 5 14 511
Fiscal Capacity and the Quality of Government in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 2 65 3 7 20 237
Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in OECD Countries 0 2 6 105 1 6 22 275
Fiscal decentralization, ideology, and the size of the public sector 0 0 1 62 7 7 14 237
Fiscal interactions in the short and the long run: evidence from German reunification 0 0 0 8 5 10 13 32
Gold Mining and Education: A Long-run Resource Curse in Africa? 0 2 8 33 4 10 40 151
Government Impartiality and Sustained Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 0 18 1 2 26 134
Has Globalisation Affected Collective Bargaining? An Empirical Test, 1980–2009 0 0 0 11 4 21 28 103
Identifying local tax mimicking with administrative borders and a policy reform 0 1 3 107 2 4 18 325
Intergovernmental Transfers, Local Fiscal Policy, and the Flypaper Effect: Evidence from a German State 0 0 3 114 5 12 24 295
Local fiscal policy after a bailout: austerity or soft budget constraints? 0 0 2 24 3 4 15 86
Monetary integration, soft budget constraints, and the EMU sovereign debt crises 0 0 1 4 2 5 25 91
On the link between fiscal decentralization and public debt in OECD countries 0 0 3 55 1 6 18 200
Political alignment and intergovernmental transfers in parliamentary systems: evidence from Germany 0 0 2 22 3 6 20 110
Political selection when uncertainty is high 0 0 1 2 2 2 11 18
Public education spending in a globalized world 0 0 2 38 1 2 18 213
Regional development and national identity in sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 3 42 4 6 22 231
Revenue decentralization and inflation: A re-evaluation 0 0 1 14 3 4 8 65
Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel 0 1 3 16 1 4 16 104
Soft budget constraints and strategic interactions in subnational borrowing: Evidence from the German States, 1975–2005 0 0 4 87 3 9 30 327
Supranational integration and national reorganization: On the Maastricht treaty’s impact on fiscal decentralization in EU countries 0 0 0 27 1 1 7 116
Tax Decentralization and Public Deficits in OECD Countries 0 0 0 15 0 2 19 93
Tax Innovations and Public Revenues in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 1 58 5 7 13 182
Taxation and Democratization 0 0 0 28 2 3 11 162
The Heckscher-Ohlin model and the network structure of international trade 1 2 3 70 2 10 30 287
The effect of direct democracy on the level and structure of local taxes 0 0 0 13 3 3 10 60
The gender recontest gap in elections 0 1 5 31 4 13 53 179
The regional economics of mineral resource wealth in Africa 0 2 2 4 2 13 35 43
The revenue and base effects of local tax hikes: evidence from a quasi-experiment 2 2 3 11 4 5 8 35
Women legislators and economic performance 0 0 3 18 6 16 43 82
Young versus old politicians and public spending priorities 0 0 1 3 8 10 33 43
Total Journal Articles 6 24 98 1,707 128 298 925 6,899


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Creative Destruction and Fiscal Institutions: A Long-Run Case Study of Three Regions 0 0 0 0 1 5 9 19
Total Chapters 0 0 0 0 1 5 9 19


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