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A Dynamic Model of Political Party Equilibrium: The Evolution of ENP in Canada, 1870-2015 0 0 0 14 1 2 2 26
A Dynamic Model of Political Party Equilibrium: The Evolution of ENP in Canada, 1870–2015 0 0 0 11 1 1 1 61
A Theory of Tenure for the Teaching University 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 699
An Oil-Driven Endogenous Growth Model 0 0 0 39 0 0 2 142
Changes in the Real Size of Government. U.S. Experience 1948-1989 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 234
Competitive Bank Monies: Reconsidering Hayek and Klein from a Transactions Perspective 0 0 0 79 2 4 8 434
Coordination Failures and Government Policy: Evidence from Emerging Countries 0 1 1 235 0 2 2 771
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 0 2 4 263
Cross Boarder Shopping and the Provision of Government Services 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 850
Do Canadian Business Cycle Peaks Predict Federal Election Calls? 0 0 1 30 1 3 6 89
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 4 6 56
Do business cycle peaks predict election calls in Canada? 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3
Do rival political parties enforce government efficiency? Evidence from Canada 1867–2021 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 5
Do rival political parties enforce government efficiency? Evidence from Canada 1867–2021 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 9
Does Aggregate Government Size Effect Private Economic Performance in Canada? 0 0 0 13 1 3 5 76
Does Income Inequality enter into an Aggregate Model of Voter Turnout? Evidence from Canada and Indian States* 0 0 3 16 2 3 9 48
Does Political Competition affect Fiscal Structure? What time series analysis says for Canada, 1870 - 2015 0 0 0 5 2 3 3 35
Does a Swing Voter Model with Voter Turnout reflect the closeness of Indian State Elections: 1957 – 2018? 0 0 0 11 2 5 8 20
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 0 2 4 89
Does the expectation or realization of a federal election precipitate Canadian output growth? 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 4
Economic Performance and Electoral Volatility: Testing the Economic Voting Hypothesis on Indian States, 1957–2013 0 0 1 27 2 3 7 113
Economies of Scale, School Violence, and the Optimal Size of Schools 0 0 0 316 2 3 4 1,527
Education Vouchers, Dropouts, and the Peer Group Problem 1 0 0 0 60 1 1 1 1,294
Elections, Economic Outcomes and Policy Choices in Canada: 1870 - 2015 0 0 0 6 1 4 6 29
Elections, Economic Outcomes and Policy in Canada: 1870 - 2015 0 0 1 32 1 3 4 52
Expenditure Visibility and Voter Memory: A Compositional Approach to the Political Budget Cycle in Indian States, 1959 – 2012 0 0 1 61 3 5 8 100
Financial Crises and the Interest-rate Approach to Monetary Policy 0 0 0 72 2 2 3 97
Fiscal Policy from a Public Choice Perspective 0 0 0 104 1 2 4 235
Fixed versus Flexible Election Cycles: Explaining innovation in the timing of Canada’s Election Cycle 1 1 1 20 4 7 11 156
Growth in the Real Size of Government Since 1970 0 0 0 724 4 7 11 2,231
Indirect Convertibility, Inflation Targeting, and Monetary Policy Rules 0 0 2 219 1 2 4 929
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
Is the Aggregate Size of Government in Canada Too Large? 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5
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 0 1 1 419
Just how much bigger is government in Canada? 0 0 0 42 0 0 2 102
Measuring Academic Potential: A Case for Academic Tenure and Process 0 0 1 269 2 2 4 1,737
Measuring Electoral Competitiveness: With Application to the Indian States 0 0 0 27 1 4 9 135
Measuring Electoral Competitiveness: With Application to the Indian States 0 0 0 9 0 1 4 34
Measuring the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy: Considerations from an Institutional Perspective 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 598
New Monetary Economics: Revisiting Indirect Converibility and Monetary Separation 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 509
ORGANIZING SHOPPING SERVICES: TRENDS IN CANADIAN RETAILING: 1972-1987 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 458
ORIGINS OF THEORIES OF ORGANIZATION: THE COMMON PROPERTY ROOT 0 0 0 0 2 6 7 59
On the Structure of the Political Party System in Indian States, 1957-2018 0 1 1 15 4 10 10 103
Optimal Simple Monetary Policy Rules in a Small Open Economy with Exchange Rate Imperfections 0 1 1 96 1 4 4 187
PRIVATE VERSUS COLLECTIVIZED CHARITY: FURTHER EXPLORATIONS OF THE CROWDING OUT DEBATE 0 0 0 39 1 1 2 321
Political Competition and Convergence to Fundamentals: With Application to the Politcal Business Cycle and the Size of the Public Sector 0 0 0 29 1 2 5 149
Political Competition and Convergence to Fundamentals: With Application to the Political Business Cycle and the Size of Government 0 0 0 115 1 2 2 380
Political Competitiveness and Fiscal Structure: A Time Series Analysis. Canada, 1870 - 2015 0 0 0 15 0 2 4 47
Political Parties in Canada: What Determines Their Entry, Exit and the Duration of Their Lives? 0 0 1 29 2 4 5 115
Political Partisanship and Economic Outcomes: Canada, 1870–2020 0 0 0 0 3 6 7 7
Political parties in Canada: What determines entry, exit and the duration of their lives? 0 0 0 0 3 5 5 16
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 2 3 4 455
Politics, political competition and the political budget cycle in Canada, 1870 - 2000: a search across alternative fiscal instruments 0 0 0 73 0 2 4 325
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 2 3 3 93
School Size and Youth Violence 0 0 1 426 0 2 7 1,880
Searching for Keynes 0 0 0 366 2 2 3 1,760
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 6 10 732
Studying the Role of Political Competition in the Evolution of Government Size Over Long Horizons 0 0 0 55 1 3 4 314
Studying the role of political competition in the evolution of government size over long horizons 0 0 0 56 2 5 7 228
THE ECONOMICS OF REGULATED EARLY CLOSING HOURS: SOME EVIDENCE FORM ONTARIO 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 150
TIME, SPACE AND SHOPPING: THE REGULATION OF SHOPPING HOURS 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 473
The Duverger-Demsetz Perspective on Electoral Competitiveness and Fragmentation: With Application to the Canadian Parliamentary System, 1867-2011 0 1 1 11 2 5 5 52
The Economics of Regulated Early Closing Hours: Some Evidence From Ontario 0 0 0 0 2 6 9 222
The Effect of Federal Government Size on Private Economic Performance in Canada: 1870–2011 0 0 0 38 3 4 5 84
The Relationship Between Government Size and Economic Performance with Particular Application to New Zealand 0 0 0 52 0 1 2 213
The effect of federal government size on private economic performance in Canada: 1870–2011 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
The monetary effects arising from stochastic resource revenues and the subsidization of financial intermediation in resource rich developing economies 0 0 0 44 3 3 5 180
What Determines the Length of a Typical Canadian Parliamentary Government? 0 0 0 0 3 5 7 7
What Happens When Voting Rules Change? The Case of New Zealand 0 1 1 20 3 5 8 61
What aggregate data can tell us about voter turnout in Canada; did changes in the distribution of income matter? 0 0 3 31 3 4 10 99
What are the significant determinants of entrepreneurship? 0 0 0 0 2 6 6 6
What determines the length of a typical Canadian parliamentary government? 0 0 0 31 1 2 2 160
Total Working Papers 1 6 21 4,424 93 211 326 23,557
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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 1 1 2 305
A Transactions Theory of Trade Credit Use 1 5 11 505 4 18 34 1,485
Between Election Rivalry and the Agency Costs of Government: The Effectiveness of Party Competition Across Indian States, 1957–2018* 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4
Coordination Failures and Government Policy: Evidence From Emerging Countries 0 0 1 109 2 3 5 355
Cost Disease versus Leviathan Explanations of Rising Government Cost: An Empirical Investigation 0 0 0 30 1 3 5 142
Do alternative measures of government result in alternative explanations for government size? 0 0 0 15 0 1 4 63
Do business cycle peaks predict election calls in Canada? 0 0 0 15 0 0 2 128
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 0 0 1 87
Do rival political parties enforce government efficiency? Evidence from Canada 1867–2021 0 0 0 2 3 6 7 14
Does a swing voter model with voter turnout reflect the closeness of the Indian state elections: 1957 - 2018? 0 1 1 3 2 6 7 15
Does the expectation or realization of a federal election precipitate Canadian output growth? 0 0 0 25 0 1 2 169
Does the expectation or realization of a federal election precipitate Canadian output growth? 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 7
Economies of scale, school violence and the optimal size of schools 0 0 1 67 3 4 7 363
Education Vouchers, the Peer Group Problem, and the Question of Dropouts 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 5
Elections, economic outcomes and policy choices in Canada: 1870 – 2015 0 1 2 4 2 3 6 22
Electoral politics and monetary policy: does the Bank of Canada contribute to a political business cycle? 0 0 1 28 2 3 5 96
Expenditure visibility and voter memory: a compositional approach to the political budget cycle in Indian states, 1959–2012 0 0 0 6 0 0 3 52
Fixed versus flexible election terms: explaining innovation in the timing of Canada’s election cycle 0 2 2 4 4 6 6 41
Government Size, Government Debt and Economic Performance with Particular Application to New Zealand 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 29
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 2 7 10 375
Indirect convertibility as a money rule for inflation targeting 0 0 0 28 0 1 2 172
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states 0 0 0 3 2 6 8 21
Information and Search: An Alternative Approach to the Theory of Minimum Wages 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 88
Is the Aggregate Size of Government in Canada Too Large? 0 0 0 7 1 1 5 30
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 1 3 5 335
Labor Mobility, Seasonal Unemployment Insurance, and the Newfoundland Inshore Fishery 0 0 0 18 1 1 2 894
Matching Candidates with Academic Teams: A Case for Academic Tenure 0 0 0 35 3 5 6 112
Measurement Costs, Relative Evaluation and Mandatory Education Requirements 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 187
On Hayek's denationalization of money, free banking and inflation targeting 0 0 1 222 1 4 9 960
On the structure of the political party system in Indian states, 1957–2018 0 1 1 1 1 5 8 20
Organizing New Product Development Projects in Strategic Alliances 0 1 1 7 3 5 6 33
Political Partisanship and Economic Outcomes: Canada, 1870–2020 0 0 0 0 2 4 8 8
Political competitiveness and the private–public structure of public expenditure: a model and empirics for the Indian States 0 0 2 8 1 2 6 33
Private versus Public Charity: Reassessing Crowding Out from the Supply Side 0 0 0 167 3 5 7 1,298
Quantifying Non-Tariff Trade Barriers: What Difference Did 9/11 Make to Canadian Cross-Border Shopping? 0 0 0 10 4 5 5 93
Real government size, automatic feedback rules and the measured effectiveness of fiscal policy 0 0 0 23 1 3 4 153
School size and youth violence 0 0 1 74 2 2 5 245
Searching for Keynesianism 0 0 0 20 3 5 9 99
Studying the role of political competition in the evolution of government size over long horizons 0 0 0 24 1 1 3 112
The Cost Disease and Government Growth: Qualifications to Baumol 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 155
The Determinants of Cross Border Shopping: Implications for Tax Revenues and Institutional Change 0 0 0 31 2 2 4 78
The effect of federal government size on private economic performance in Canada: 1870–2011 0 0 0 17 4 7 13 72
The inflationary effects of stochastic resource revenues in resource-rich economies with less well-developed financial markets 0 0 0 14 1 4 4 58
Time, Space, and Shopping: The Regulation of Shopping Hours 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 177
Wage and Price Contracts in a Macro Model with Information Costs 0 0 0 5 0 3 4 189
What are the significant determinants of entrepreneurship? 0 0 1 17 0 4 7 136
What happens when voting rules change? the case of New Zealand 0 0 0 4 3 5 9 32
Total Journal Articles 1 11 26 1,734 72 159 264 9,547


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Political Competition and the Study of Public Economics 0 0 0 0 2 3 13 51
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 3 13 51


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Fiscal policy 0 0 0 18 1 2 4 56
The Duverger-Demsetz Perspective on Electoral Competitiveness and Fragmentation: With Application to the Canadian Parliamentary System, 1867–2011 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 11
Total Chapters 0 0 0 18 2 3 6 67


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