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A Tale of Five PIIGS: Soft Budget Constraints and the EMU Sovereign Debt Crises 0 0 0 137 0 1 2 407
Appointed Public Officials and Local Favoritism: Evidence from the German States 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 23
Appointed Public Officials and Local Favoritism: Evidence from the German States 0 0 1 35 0 1 4 155
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states 0 0 1 25 0 0 1 56
Bailouts and austerity 0 0 0 53 0 0 0 145
Coalition governments, cabinet size, and the common pool problem: Evidence from the German states 0 0 1 101 0 3 9 421
Competitively Elected Women as Policy Makers 0 0 2 186 0 4 33 710
Creative Destruction and Fiscal Institutions: A Long-Run Case Study of Three Regions 0 0 0 110 0 1 2 367
Depressing Dependence? Transfers and Economic Growth in the German States, 1975-2005 0 0 0 25 1 1 1 94
Depressing dependence? Transfers and economic growth in the German States, 1975-2005 0 0 0 22 0 0 2 56
Did the Maastricht treaty matter for macroeconomic performance? 0 1 1 96 0 3 6 329
Direct democracy and local public finances under cooperative federalism 0 0 0 91 0 0 0 302
Do bailouts buy votes? Evidence from a panel of Hessian municipalities 0 0 0 40 1 2 2 112
Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state 0 0 1 55 0 1 7 123
Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state 0 1 1 64 1 3 8 154
Do municipal mergers result in scale economies? Evidence from a German federal state 0 0 0 34 0 1 2 172
Does the election of a female leader clear the way for more women in politics? 0 0 6 228 2 5 34 866
Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany 0 0 0 20 1 1 4 82
Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions: quasi-experimental evidence from Germany 0 0 1 29 0 1 5 113
Electoral thresholds and political outcomes: Quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Germany 0 0 1 53 0 0 4 109
Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 6
Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications 0 0 0 10 2 3 7 29
Favoritism and firms: Micro evidence and macro implications 0 0 0 13 1 2 4 52
Favoritism by the governing elite 0 0 1 10 0 1 8 27
Favoritism by the governing elite 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 3
Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in OECD Countries: Is there a Relationship? 0 0 1 470 1 3 11 1,137
Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization and Economic Growth: Survey and Meta-Analysis 0 0 1 274 0 2 8 743
Fiscal capacity and government accountability in sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 1 87 0 0 4 200
Fiscal decentralization, ideology, and the size of the public sector 0 0 0 90 0 0 4 294
Fiscal federalism, decentralization and economic growth: A meta-analysis 1 2 5 136 2 8 22 485
Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis 0 0 0 70 0 0 2 200
Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis 0 0 0 112 0 0 1 302
Globalization, Redistribution, and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures 0 0 0 99 0 0 0 436
Gold mining and education: a long-run resource curse in Africa? 0 1 5 102 1 5 18 300
Has Globalization Affected Collective Bargaining? An Empirical Test, 1980-2009 0 0 3 328 0 0 11 1,942
Identifying local tax mimicking: Administrative borders and a policy reform 0 0 0 88 0 0 1 187
Ideology and fiscal policy: quasi-experimental evidence from the German States 0 0 0 139 0 0 0 243
Monetary Integration, Soft Budget Constraints, and the EMU Sovereign Debt Crises 0 0 0 175 2 7 8 805
On the Link Between Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt in OECD Countries 0 0 1 277 0 2 9 746
Political Selection When Uncertainty Is High 0 1 6 27 2 4 20 86
Political alignment and intergovernmental transfers in parliamentary systems: Evidence from Germany 0 1 3 120 0 2 19 378
Political favoritism and internal migration in Benin 0 0 2 14 0 2 5 15
Public Education Spending in a Globalized World: Is there a Shift in Priorities Across Educational Stages? 0 0 0 169 0 1 5 582
Re-evaluating the economic costs of conflicts 0 0 1 30 0 0 2 119
Regional favoritism and human capital accumulation in Africa 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 31
Regional redistribution of mineral resource wealth in Africa 0 0 0 23 0 1 3 43
Revenue decentralization and inflation: a re-evaluation 0 0 0 85 0 0 1 229
Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 12 0 1 1 59
Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 28 1 1 1 110
Scale-Free Networks in International Trade 0 0 0 200 0 0 2 550
Soft budget constraints and strategic interactions in subnational borrowing: Evidence from the German States, 1975-2005 0 0 1 151 1 1 4 441
Subnational border reforms and economic development in Africa 0 0 1 58 0 0 2 160
Supranational Integration And National Reorganization 0 1 1 51 0 1 2 405
Tax decentralization and public deficits in OECD countries 0 0 0 133 1 1 2 301
Tax mimicking in the short- and long-run: Evidence from German reunification 0 0 0 47 0 0 3 123
Tax mimicking in the short- and the long-run: Evidence from German reunification 0 0 0 24 0 0 1 53
Taxation and democratization 0 0 0 100 0 0 4 239
The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 35
The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections 0 0 1 3 0 0 2 6
The Heckscher-Ohlin Model and the Network Structure of International Trade 0 0 1 128 0 1 4 532
The economics and empirics of tax competition: A survey 0 0 1 183 0 0 3 375
The effect of direct democracy on the level and structure of local taxes 0 0 0 84 0 1 2 160
The flypaper effect: evidence from a natural experiment in Hesse 1 1 1 145 1 4 8 350
The political economy of special needs transfers: Evidence from Bavarian municipalities, 1993-2011 0 0 0 31 0 1 2 86
The revenue and base effects of local tax hikes: Evidence from a quasi-experiment 0 0 0 71 1 3 11 191
Women Legislators and Economic Performance 0 0 1 45 1 2 6 152
Women Legislators and Economic Performance 0 0 0 4 0 0 8 20
Women Legislators and Economic Performance 0 0 0 27 0 1 4 57
Women Legislators and Economic Performance 0 0 1 35 0 1 5 83
Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers 0 0 1 39 1 2 8 45
Women legislators and economic performance 0 0 0 19 1 3 9 143
Young versus Old Politicians in Local Politics 1 2 15 21 4 7 45 62
Total Working Papers 3 11 71 6,015 30 103 447 19,154


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Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states 0 0 1 10 0 4 7 63
Coalition governments, cabinet size, and the common pool problem: Evidence from the German states 0 1 1 38 1 3 6 124
Creative destruction and fiscal institutions: a long-run case study of three regions 0 0 1 24 0 0 2 116
Depressing dependence? Transfers and economic growth in the German states, 1975–2005 0 1 1 9 0 4 5 52
Did the Maastricht treaty matter for macroeconomic performance? A difference‐in‐difference investigation 0 0 0 60 0 0 3 183
Direct Democracy and Local Public Finances under Cooperative Federalism 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 34
Distributive spending and presidential partisan politics 0 0 0 6 3 5 6 43
Do bailouts buy votes? Evidence from a panel of Hessian municipalities 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 74
Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state 0 1 8 68 1 4 25 221
Does the Election of a Female Leader Clear the Way for More Women in Politics? 0 0 1 47 1 2 12 167
Election cycles and electricity provision: Evidence from a quasi-experiment with Indian special elections 1 2 4 73 3 7 19 265
Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany 0 1 1 10 1 2 3 83
Electoral thresholds and political representation 0 0 0 7 1 3 8 68
FISCAL FEDERALISM, DECENTRALIZATION, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A META-ANALYSIS 0 0 0 36 0 0 3 152
Federalism, Budget Deficits and Public Debt: On the Reform of Germany's Fiscal Constitution 0 0 2 175 0 4 13 501
Fiscal Capacity and the Quality of Government in Sub-Saharan Africa 1 1 3 64 3 3 10 220
Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in OECD Countries 0 1 5 100 1 2 12 255
Fiscal decentralization, ideology, and the size of the public sector 0 1 1 62 1 3 5 226
Fiscal interactions in the short and the long run: evidence from German reunification 0 0 2 8 0 0 3 19
Gold Mining and Education: A Long-run Resource Curse in Africa? 2 3 7 28 2 6 32 117
Government Impartiality and Sustained Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 0 18 3 4 7 112
Has Globalisation Affected Collective Bargaining? An Empirical Test, 1980–2009 0 0 1 11 1 1 5 76
Identifying local tax mimicking with administrative borders and a policy reform 0 2 5 106 0 3 18 310
Intergovernmental Transfers, Local Fiscal Policy, and the Flypaper Effect: Evidence from a German State 0 1 7 112 0 2 11 273
Local fiscal policy after a bailout: austerity or soft budget constraints? 0 0 0 22 0 1 5 72
Monetary integration, soft budget constraints, and the EMU sovereign debt crises 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 66
On the link between fiscal decentralization and public debt in OECD countries 0 1 2 53 0 2 5 184
Political alignment and intergovernmental transfers in parliamentary systems: evidence from Germany 0 0 1 20 2 2 8 92
Political selection when uncertainty is high 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 7
Public education spending in a globalized world 0 0 1 36 0 1 5 196
Regional development and national identity in sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 2 39 1 2 5 211
Revenue decentralization and inflation: A re-evaluation 0 1 1 14 0 1 2 58
Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel 0 1 1 14 1 2 4 90
Soft budget constraints and strategic interactions in subnational borrowing: Evidence from the German States, 1975–2005 2 2 2 85 3 4 21 301
Supranational integration and national reorganization: On the Maastricht treaty’s impact on fiscal decentralization in EU countries 0 0 0 27 0 0 2 109
Tax Decentralization and Public Deficits in OECD Countries 0 0 0 15 0 0 2 74
Tax Innovations and Public Revenues in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 1 2 58 2 3 8 172
Taxation and Democratization 0 0 1 28 2 3 10 154
The Heckscher-Ohlin model and the network structure of international trade 0 1 5 68 3 6 20 263
The effect of direct democracy on the level and structure of local taxes 0 0 1 13 1 1 4 51
The gender recontest gap in elections 1 2 3 28 4 11 33 137
The regional economics of mineral resource wealth in Africa 0 0 2 2 0 2 10 10
The revenue and base effects of local tax hikes: evidence from a quasi-experiment 0 0 0 8 0 0 4 27
Women legislators and economic performance 0 0 9 15 4 6 29 45
Young versus old politicians and public spending priorities 0 0 2 2 2 3 13 13
Total Journal Articles 7 24 87 1,633 47 112 412 6,086


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Creative Destruction and Fiscal Institutions: A Long-Run Case Study of Three Regions 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
Total Chapters 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10


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