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Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 21 1 4 5 43
Protectionism Among the States: How Preference Policies Undermine Competition 0 0 0 16 2 2 2 5
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship 0 0 1 33 5 11 14 97
State lottery revenue: the importance of game characteristics 0 0 1 302 1 4 9 1,644
The political economy of FEMA disaster payments 0 0 1 158 7 15 27 598
Total Working Papers 0 0 3 530 16 36 57 2,387
17 registered items for which data could not be found


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A Public Choice Explanation for the Budget Surplus: Comment 0 0 0 37 4 4 6 225
A Reply to a Replication of “Weathering Corruption†( Journal of Law and Economics, 2008): Different Data Produce Different Results 0 0 0 1 0 7 7 11
An examination of the empirical derivatives of the favourite-longshot bias in racetrack betting 0 1 3 241 4 8 20 802
Analyzing the Effectiveness of State Regulatory Review 1 1 2 7 2 5 10 36
Automobile Safety Regulation and the Incentive to Drive Recklessly: Evidence from NASCAR 0 0 0 2 0 2 5 13
Beyond Borders: Is Media Freedom Contagious? 0 0 0 12 3 5 8 75
Bootleggers, Baptists, and the risks of rent seeking 0 0 1 10 5 6 13 73
Cointegrating Institutions: The Time-Series Properties of Country Institutional Measures 0 0 0 39 3 5 8 197
Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy 0 0 1 24 5 7 12 127
Consumption Externalities and Economic Welfare 1 1 3 89 3 5 11 362
Costly price discrimination 0 0 0 33 2 4 11 170
Defending the Articles of Confederation: A Reply to Dougherty 0 1 1 49 0 2 3 658
Do intergovernmental grants create ratchets in state and local taxes? 0 0 1 20 3 4 13 74
Do political motivations and strategic considerations influence municipal annexation patterns? 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 16
Does Balance Among Areas of Institutional Quality Matter for Economic Growth? 1 1 1 6 7 12 20 74
Does Trust Always Help Gender Role Attitudes? The Role of Individualism and Collectivism 0 0 2 4 2 4 9 24
Does a Less Active Central Bank Lead to Greater Economic Stability? Evidence from the European Monetary Union 0 0 0 5 2 4 5 40
Does corruption ever help entrepreneurship? 2 3 7 97 3 9 27 326
Does cultural diversity increase the rate of entrepreneurship? 0 0 0 42 2 3 3 233
Does fiscal decentralization constrain Leviathan? New evidence from local property tax competition 0 0 0 34 2 7 11 121
Does fiscal decentralization result in a better business climate? 0 1 1 8 5 6 10 62
Does school choice increase the rate of youth entrepreneurship? 0 0 1 95 12 15 25 389
Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform. Edited by Henry Aaron and William Gale. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 521. $52.95 cloth, $24.95 paper 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 2
Empirical Evidence on the Publicness of State Legislative Activities 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 181
Entrepreneurship and human capital: The role of financial development 0 1 3 51 4 8 20 179
Entrepreneurship and political risk 0 0 3 26 4 10 26 510
Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, and economic policy 0 2 7 29 2 12 24 98
Exchange Rate Evidence on the Effectiveness of United Nations Policy 0 0 0 32 1 5 6 236
Exchange rate evidence on the effectiveness of United Nations policy 0 0 0 9 3 4 6 115
Expressive Voting and Government Redistribution: Testing Tullock's `Charity of the Uncharitable' 0 0 0 60 3 5 7 306
Foreign aid’s impact on domestic business climates 0 0 1 13 1 3 4 60
Freedom, barriers to entry, entrepreneurship, and economic progress 0 0 2 75 2 4 8 341
Gamblers favor skewness, not risk: Further evidence from United States' lottery games 0 0 6 159 33 40 50 533
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, The Political Economy of the European Union: Institutions, Policy, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 105 3 3 4 325
Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis 0 4 5 171 3 13 26 830
HAS WAL‐MART BURIED MOM AND POP?: THE IMPACT OF WAL‐MART ON SELF‐EMPLOYMENT AND SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES 0 0 1 53 35 39 42 349
HOW EFFECTIVE ARE EXPERT TV HOSTS AT SAVING FAILING BUSINESSES? 0 0 5 49 1 1 12 122
Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 3 6 6 10 38
In Defense of the Articles of Confederation and the Contribution Mechanism as a Means of Government Finance: A General Comment on the Literature 0 0 2 73 0 0 3 908
Income inequality and economic freedom in the U.S. states 0 1 2 59 3 9 13 243
Institutions, Capital, and Growth 0 0 2 15 1 6 14 40
Measuring the Growth and Variability of Tax Bases Over the Business Cycle 0 0 6 100 4 5 14 248
Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas (Eds.), The political economy of conflict and appropriation 0 0 1 30 22 24 33 164
Occupational safety and profit maximization: Friends or foes? 0 0 0 23 3 5 7 107
On the Measurement of Rent Seeking and Its Social Opportunity Cost 1 1 1 73 2 4 4 307
Optimal Taxation in a Federal System of Governments 0 0 0 4 6 7 9 17
PUBLIC POLICY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM 2 4 7 175 4 11 27 433
Public Policy Toward Pecuniary Externalities 0 0 0 36 3 10 21 146
Race, politics, and punishment 0 0 0 0 2 6 8 19
Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending at the state level: Keynesian stimulus or distributive politics? 0 0 0 7 5 7 8 122
Regulatory costs on entrepreneurship and establishment employment size 0 2 3 27 4 8 12 96
Seniority and anti-competitive restrictions on the legislative common pool: tenure’s impact on the overall production of legislation and the concentration of political benefits 0 0 0 1 2 4 5 45
State Lottery Revenue: The Importance of Game Characteristics 0 0 2 11 4 7 12 69
State budget stabilization fund adoption: Preparing for the next recession or circumventing fiscal constraints? 0 0 0 46 2 3 6 245
Taxation and Product Quality: New Evidence from Generic Cigarettes 0 0 2 22 5 11 14 435
Testing Baumol: Institutional quality and the productivity of entrepreneurship 1 4 9 236 6 20 33 695
The Curse of Historic Resources 0 0 1 4 3 4 6 17
The Distinction Between True and Induced Free Riders: an Application to Gatt de Facto Membership 0 1 1 1 4 7 9 24
The Effect of Judicial Selection Processes on Judicial Quality: The Role of Partisan Politics 0 0 0 15 2 3 4 74
The Last 30 Years of Public Choice: An Analysis of Author and Institution Rankings 0 0 0 47 1 1 3 172
The League of Nations covenant and the United Nations charter: An analysis of two international constitutions 0 2 5 58 6 9 15 244
The Political Costs of Tax Increases and Expenditure Reductions: Evidence from State Legislative Turnover 0 0 0 25 0 2 3 148
The Political Economy of FEMA Disaster Payments 1 5 18 201 11 23 54 971
The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina 1 1 2 4 2 4 6 15
The Stability of International Coalitions in United Nations Voting from 1946 to 1973 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 413
The Unanimous Voting Rule Is Not the Political Equivalent to Market Exchange 0 0 0 24 2 6 7 516
The efficiency impact of uncertain taxes: an experimental study 0 0 1 2 3 3 7 11
The elephant in the room: why some states are refusing to expand Medicaid 1 1 2 6 3 5 10 31
The emergence of entrepreneurial economics, by Vinig, T. And Van Der Voort, R. (eds.). Research on Technological Innovation, Management, and Policy, Vol. 9, Elsevier: Amsterdam, 2005, xvi +232 pp., GBP 66.00, USD 105.00, EUR 95.00 (cloth) 0 0 0 56 1 1 3 266
The non-productive entrepreneurial process 1 1 1 21 4 6 9 134
The rise and decline of nations: the dynamic properties of institutional reform 1 0 0 1 14 4 5 8 44
The use of knowledge in technology entrepreneurship: A theoretical foundation 0 0 0 13 0 1 1 62
Theory and Evidence on the Political Economy of the Minimum Wage 0 1 4 153 4 10 19 441
Venture capital, entrepreneurship, and public policy, edited by Kanniainen, V. and Keuschnigg, C. CESifo Seminar Series, by Sinn, H.-W. MIT Press: Cambridge and London, 2005, xviii+293 pp., USD 40.00 (cloth) 0 0 0 22 2 6 7 106
Vibert's European union: A United Nations or a United States? 0 0 0 1 7 8 10 36
Weathering Corruption 1 1 1 68 5 11 14 266
What influences entrepreneurship among skilled immigrants in the USA? Evidence from micro-data 0 0 0 14 3 5 9 48
Youth Gangs as Pseudo‐Governments: Implications for Violent Crime 0 0 0 3 2 3 7 13
Total Journal Articles 14 41 132 3,382 321 555 948 16,724
2 registered items for which data could not be found


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Does fiscal decentralization result in a better business climate? 0 0 1 6 3 4 6 41
Electoral Pressures and the Legal System: Friends or Foes? 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 7
Entrepreneurial creative destruction and legal federalism 0 0 1 10 3 4 8 64
The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management 0 0 0 5 2 3 7 65
The politics of elections and congressional oversight 0 0 0 7 2 3 4 36
Total Chapters 0 0 2 28 11 17 31 213


Statistics updated 2026-02-12