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A Dynamic Model of Political Party Equilibrium: The Evolution of ENP in Canada, 1870-2015 0 0 0 14 4 5 13 37
A Dynamic Model of Political Party Equilibrium: The Evolution of ENP in Canada, 1870–2015 0 0 0 11 3 6 8 68
A Theory of Tenure for the Teaching University 0 0 0 0 2 4 10 706
An Oil-Driven Endogenous Growth Model 0 0 0 39 2 5 11 151
Changes in the Real Size of Government. U.S. Experience 1948-1989 0 0 0 0 6 6 10 244
Competitive Bank Monies: Reconsidering Hayek and Klein from a Transactions Perspective 0 0 0 79 4 5 12 442
Coordination Failures and Government Policy: Evidence from Emerging Countries 1 1 2 236 3 3 7 776
Could Non-redeemable Money have Evolved Naturally from Commodity Money under Free Banking? – revised version: On Hayek’s Denationalization of Money, Free Banking and Inflation Targeting 0 0 0 49 2 4 10 270
Cross Boarder Shopping and the Provision of Government Services 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 852
Do Canadian Business Cycle Peaks Predict Federal Election Calls? 0 0 1 30 3 10 22 105
Do Departures from Democratic Accountability Compromise the Stability of Public Finances? Keynesianism, Central Banking, and Minority Governments in the Canadian System of Party Government, 1867 – 2009 0 0 0 3 1 1 7 58
Do business cycle peaks predict election calls in Canada? 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 6
Do rival political parties enforce government efficiency? Evidence from Canada 1867–2021 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 8
Do rival political parties enforce government efficiency? Evidence from Canada 1867–2021 0 0 0 0 2 4 8 15
Does Aggregate Government Size Effect Private Economic Performance in Canada? 0 0 0 13 3 4 9 82
Does Income Inequality enter into an Aggregate Model of Voter Turnout? Evidence from Canada and Indian States* 0 0 2 16 3 7 18 59
Does Political Competition affect Fiscal Structure? What time series analysis says for Canada, 1870 - 2015 0 0 0 5 1 3 9 41
Does a Swing Voter Model with Voter Turnout reflect the closeness of Indian State Elections: 1957 – 2018? 0 0 0 11 8 10 20 33
Does the Risk or Realization of a Federal Election Precipitate Canadian Output Growth? – revised version: Does the Expectation or Realization of a Federal Election Precipitate Canadian Output Growth? 0 0 0 22 2 4 10 97
Does the expectation or realization of a federal election precipitate Canadian output growth? 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 10
Economic Performance and Electoral Volatility: Testing the Economic Voting Hypothesis on Indian States, 1957–2013 0 0 1 27 1 2 10 117
Economies of Scale, School Violence, and the Optimal Size of Schools 0 0 0 316 1 2 10 1,533
Education Vouchers, Dropouts, and the Peer Group Problem 1 0 0 0 60 3 3 4 1,297
Elections, Economic Outcomes and Policy Choices in Canada: 1870 - 2015 0 0 0 6 0 2 10 35
Elections, Economic Outcomes and Policy in Canada: 1870 - 2015 0 0 0 32 1 3 8 57
Expenditure Visibility and Voter Memory: A Compositional Approach to the Political Budget Cycle in Indian States, 1959 – 2012 0 0 1 61 4 7 18 111
Financial Crises and the Interest-rate Approach to Monetary Policy 0 0 0 72 3 3 10 104
Fiscal Policy from a Public Choice Perspective 0 0 0 104 7 22 31 262
Fixed versus Flexible Election Cycles: Explaining innovation in the timing of Canada’s Election Cycle 0 0 1 20 5 8 19 168
Growth in the Real Size of Government Since 1970 0 0 0 724 1 1 12 2,235
Indirect Convertibility, Inflation Targeting, and Monetary Policy Rules 0 0 2 219 4 4 10 935
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 8
Is the Aggregate Size of Government in Canada Too Large? 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 6
Is the Bank of Canada any more or less independent than the Fed? – revised version: Electoral Politics and Monetary Policy: Does the Bank of Canada Contribute to a Political Business Cycle? 0 0 0 74 3 4 7 425
Just how much bigger is government in Canada? 0 0 0 42 0 0 4 105
Measuring Academic Potential: A Case for Academic Tenure and Process 0 0 1 269 5 6 12 1,745
Measuring Electoral Competitiveness: With Application to the Indian States 0 0 0 9 1 3 7 39
Measuring Electoral Competitiveness: With Application to the Indian States 0 0 0 27 2 4 15 142
Measuring the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy: Considerations from an Institutional Perspective 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 603
New Monetary Economics: Revisiting Indirect Converibility and Monetary Separation 0 0 0 0 5 5 10 516
ORGANIZING SHOPPING SERVICES: TRENDS IN CANADIAN RETAILING: 1972-1987 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 461
ORIGINS OF THEORIES OF ORGANIZATION: THE COMMON PROPERTY ROOT 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 62
On the Structure of the Political Party System in Indian States, 1957-2018 0 0 1 15 2 2 16 109
Optimal Simple Monetary Policy Rules in a Small Open Economy with Exchange Rate Imperfections 0 0 1 96 4 5 14 197
PRIVATE VERSUS COLLECTIVIZED CHARITY: FURTHER EXPLORATIONS OF THE CROWDING OUT DEBATE 0 0 0 39 2 4 9 328
Political Competition and Convergence to Fundamentals: With Application to the Politcal Business Cycle and the Size of the Public Sector 0 0 0 29 6 7 12 157
Political Competition and Convergence to Fundamentals: With Application to the Political Business Cycle and the Size of Government 0 0 0 115 2 2 8 386
Political Competitiveness and Fiscal Structure: A Time Series Analysis. Canada, 1870 - 2015 0 0 0 15 2 4 10 54
Political Parties in Canada: What Determines Their Entry, Exit and the Duration of Their Lives? 0 0 0 29 1 3 13 124
Political Partisanship and Economic Outcomes: Canada, 1870–2020 0 0 0 0 1 3 10 10
Political parties in Canada: What determines entry, exit and the duration of their lives? 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 19
Politics versus Economics in the Explanation of Government – revised version: Studying the Role of Political Competition in the Evolution of Government Size over Long Horizons 0 0 0 126 3 3 10 461
Politics, political competition and the political budget cycle in Canada, 1870 - 2000: a search across alternative fiscal instruments 0 0 0 73 4 5 11 333
Quantifying Non-tariff Trading Barriers: What Difference Did the U.S. Security Precautions Following 9/11 Make to Canadian Cross Border Shopping? -revised version: Quantifying Non-Tariff Trade Barriers: What Difference Did 9/11 Make to Canadian Cross-Border Shopping? 0 0 0 12 3 4 8 98
School Size and Youth Violence 0 0 1 426 0 2 11 1,887
Searching for Keynes 0 0 0 366 3 5 11 1,769
Searching for Keynes: An Essay on the Political Economy of Fiscal Policy, with Application to Canada, 1870-2000 - revised version 0 0 0 156 0 1 13 735
Studying the Role of Political Competition in the Evolution of Government Size Over Long Horizons 0 0 0 55 0 2 7 317
Studying the role of political competition in the evolution of government size over long horizons 0 0 0 56 1 3 15 238
THE ECONOMICS OF REGULATED EARLY CLOSING HOURS: SOME EVIDENCE FORM ONTARIO 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 154
TIME, SPACE AND SHOPPING: THE REGULATION OF SHOPPING HOURS 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 476
The Duverger-Demsetz Perspective on Electoral Competitiveness and Fragmentation: With Application to the Canadian Parliamentary System, 1867-2011 0 0 1 11 1 4 10 57
The Economics of Regulated Early Closing Hours: Some Evidence From Ontario 0 0 0 0 2 2 10 224
The Effect of Federal Government Size on Private Economic Performance in Canada: 1870–2011 0 1 1 39 6 16 23 102
The Relationship Between Government Size and Economic Performance with Particular Application to New Zealand 0 0 0 52 5 6 7 219
The effect of federal government size on private economic performance in Canada: 1870–2011 0 0 0 0 3 4 7 7
The monetary effects arising from stochastic resource revenues and the subsidization of financial intermediation in resource rich developing economies 0 0 0 44 0 3 8 184
What Determines the Length of a Typical Canadian Parliamentary Government? 0 0 0 0 2 6 16 17
What Happens When Voting Rules Change? The Case of New Zealand 0 0 1 20 3 4 15 70
What aggregate data can tell us about voter turnout in Canada; did changes in the distribution of income matter? 0 1 2 32 1 3 11 104
What are the significant determinants of entrepreneurship? 0 0 0 0 3 5 14 14
What determines the length of a typical Canadian parliamentary government? 0 0 0 31 4 5 12 170
Total Working Papers 1 3 19 4,427 168 293 760 24,046
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Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Tenure for the Teaching University 0 0 0 61 5 5 8 312
A Transactions Theory of Trade Credit Use 2 5 11 511 8 19 51 1,510
Between Election Rivalry and the Agency Costs of Government: The Effectiveness of Party Competition Across Indian States, 1957–2018* 0 0 0 0 4 4 10 12
Coordination Failures and Government Policy: Evidence From Emerging Countries 0 0 1 109 4 5 11 361
Cost Disease versus Leviathan Explanations of Rising Government Cost: An Empirical Investigation 0 0 0 30 3 5 12 150
Do alternative measures of government result in alternative explanations for government size? 0 0 0 15 2 3 8 68
Do business cycle peaks predict election calls in Canada? 0 0 0 15 5 7 10 138
Do departures from democratic accountability compromise the stability of public finances? Keynesianism, central banking, and minority governments in the Canadian system of party government, 1867–2009 0 0 0 7 2 5 5 92
Do rival political parties enforce government efficiency? Evidence from Canada 1867–2021 0 0 0 2 2 3 10 18
Does a swing voter model with voter turnout reflect the closeness of the Indian state elections: 1957 - 2018? 0 0 1 3 3 6 16 24
Does the expectation or realization of a federal election precipitate Canadian output growth? 0 0 0 25 2 4 11 178
Does the expectation or realization of a federal election precipitate Canadian output growth? 0 0 0 1 3 3 7 13
Economies of scale, school violence and the optimal size of schools 0 0 1 67 3 3 13 369
Education Vouchers, the Peer Group Problem, and the Question of Dropouts 0 0 0 0 3 4 8 10
Elections, economic outcomes and policy choices in Canada: 1870 – 2015 0 0 1 4 2 5 11 30
Electoral politics and monetary policy: does the Bank of Canada contribute to a political business cycle? 0 0 0 28 1 4 13 105
Expenditure visibility and voter memory: a compositional approach to the political budget cycle in Indian states, 1959–2012 0 1 1 7 2 7 12 62
Fixed versus flexible election terms: explaining innovation in the timing of Canada’s election cycle 0 0 2 4 5 7 23 58
Government Size, Government Debt and Economic Performance with Particular Application to New Zealand 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 30
In defense of organization theory: A reply to the critics: Lex Donaldson (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985) pp. xiii+196, $14.95 0 0 0 81 5 10 20 387
Indirect convertibility as a money rule for inflation targeting 0 0 0 28 1 2 8 178
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states 0 0 0 3 4 4 11 26
Information and Search: An Alternative Approach to the Theory of Minimum Wages 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 90
Is the Aggregate Size of Government in Canada Too Large? 0 0 0 7 3 3 12 38
Just How Much Bigger Is Government in Canada? A Comparative Analysis of the Size and Structure of the Public Sectors in Canada and the United States, 1929­2004 0 0 0 32 4 4 15 346
Labor Mobility, Seasonal Unemployment Insurance, and the Newfoundland Inshore Fishery 0 0 0 18 0 2 4 896
Matching Candidates with Academic Teams: A Case for Academic Tenure 0 0 0 35 0 1 7 114
Measurement Costs, Relative Evaluation and Mandatory Education Requirements 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 189
On Hayek's denationalization of money, free banking and inflation targeting 1 1 2 223 3 8 17 972
On the structure of the political party system in Indian states, 1957–2018 0 0 1 1 0 0 10 23
Organizing New Product Development Projects in Strategic Alliances 0 1 3 9 1 4 13 40
Political Partisanship and Economic Outcomes: Canada, 1870–2020 0 2 2 2 0 4 17 19
Political competitiveness and the private–public structure of public expenditure: a model and empirics for the Indian States 0 0 0 8 1 3 8 38
Private versus Public Charity: Reassessing Crowding Out from the Supply Side 0 0 0 167 1 3 10 1,301
Quantifying Non-Tariff Trade Barriers: What Difference Did 9/11 Make to Canadian Cross-Border Shopping? 0 0 0 10 2 3 9 97
Real government size, automatic feedback rules and the measured effectiveness of fiscal policy 0 0 0 23 1 2 8 157
School size and youth violence 0 0 1 74 1 1 6 247
Searching for Keynesianism 0 0 0 20 1 1 11 101
Studying the role of political competition in the evolution of government size over long horizons 0 0 0 24 2 7 15 125
The Cost Disease and Government Growth: Qualifications to Baumol 0 0 0 0 2 3 9 161
The Determinants of Cross Border Shopping: Implications for Tax Revenues and Institutional Change 0 1 1 32 0 2 10 85
The effect of federal government size on private economic performance in Canada: 1870–2011 0 1 1 18 2 5 18 82
The inflationary effects of stochastic resource revenues in resource-rich economies with less well-developed financial markets 0 0 0 14 3 3 12 66
Time, Space, and Shopping: The Regulation of Shopping Hours 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 181
Wage and Price Contracts in a Macro Model with Information Costs 0 0 0 5 0 3 9 195
What are the significant determinants of entrepreneurship? 0 0 0 17 7 11 17 149
What happens when voting rules change? the case of New Zealand 0 0 0 4 6 9 21 45
Total Journal Articles 3 12 29 1,748 111 201 552 9,888


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Political Competition and the Study of Public Economics 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 54
Total Books 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 54


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Fiscal policy 0 0 0 18 1 1 9 61
The Duverger-Demsetz Perspective on Electoral Competitiveness and Fragmentation: With Application to the Canadian Parliamentary System, 1867–2011 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 16
Total Chapters 0 0 0 18 2 3 16 77


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