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Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 21 2 3 5 42
Protectionism Among the States: How Preference Policies Undermine Competition 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 3
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship 0 0 1 33 4 6 10 92
State lottery revenue: the importance of game characteristics 0 0 1 302 0 4 8 1,643
The political economy of FEMA disaster payments 0 0 1 158 6 9 20 591
Total Working Papers 0 0 3 530 12 22 43 2,371
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 0 0 2 221
A Reply to a Replication of “Weathering Corruption†( Journal of Law and Economics, 2008): Different Data Produce Different Results 0 0 0 1 2 7 7 11
An examination of the empirical derivatives of the favourite-longshot bias in racetrack betting 0 1 3 241 2 5 17 798
Analyzing the Effectiveness of State Regulatory Review 0 0 1 6 3 5 8 34
Automobile Safety Regulation and the Incentive to Drive Recklessly: Evidence from NASCAR 0 0 0 2 2 4 6 13
Beyond Borders: Is Media Freedom Contagious? 0 0 0 12 2 3 5 72
Bootleggers, Baptists, and the risks of rent seeking 0 0 1 10 0 2 8 68
Cointegrating Institutions: The Time-Series Properties of Country Institutional Measures 0 0 0 39 1 3 6 194
Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy 0 0 1 24 2 2 7 122
Consumption Externalities and Economic Welfare 0 0 2 88 2 3 9 359
Costly price discrimination 0 0 0 33 2 2 10 168
Defending the Articles of Confederation: A Reply to Dougherty 1 1 1 49 1 3 4 658
Do intergovernmental grants create ratchets in state and local taxes? 0 0 1 20 1 2 11 71
Do political motivations and strategic considerations influence municipal annexation patterns? 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 14
Does Balance Among Areas of Institutional Quality Matter for Economic Growth? 0 0 0 5 5 7 13 67
Does Trust Always Help Gender Role Attitudes? The Role of Individualism and Collectivism 0 0 3 4 2 2 8 22
Does a Less Active Central Bank Lead to Greater Economic Stability? Evidence from the European Monetary Union 0 0 0 5 2 2 3 38
Does corruption ever help entrepreneurship? 0 2 5 95 2 8 25 323
Does cultural diversity increase the rate of entrepreneurship? 0 0 0 42 1 1 2 231
Does fiscal decentralization constrain Leviathan? New evidence from local property tax competition 0 0 0 34 3 7 10 119
Does fiscal decentralization result in a better business climate? 1 1 1 8 1 2 5 57
Does school choice increase the rate of youth entrepreneurship? 0 0 1 95 3 3 14 377
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 1 1 2 0 1 1 2
Empirical Evidence on the Publicness of State Legislative Activities 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 181
Entrepreneurship and human capital: The role of financial development 0 2 4 51 2 7 17 175
Entrepreneurship and political risk 0 0 3 26 2 10 22 506
Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, and economic policy 0 3 8 29 3 13 23 96
Exchange Rate Evidence on the Effectiveness of United Nations Policy 0 0 0 32 2 4 5 235
Exchange rate evidence on the effectiveness of United Nations policy 0 0 0 9 0 1 3 112
Expressive Voting and Government Redistribution: Testing Tullock's `Charity of the Uncharitable' 0 0 0 60 2 2 4 303
Foreign aid’s impact on domestic business climates 0 0 1 13 1 2 3 59
Freedom, barriers to entry, entrepreneurship, and economic progress 0 0 2 75 1 2 6 339
Gamblers favor skewness, not risk: Further evidence from United States' lottery games 0 0 7 159 1 8 19 500
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, The Political Economy of the European Union: Institutions, Policy, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 105 0 1 1 322
Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis 0 5 6 171 3 13 24 827
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 3 5 7 314
HOW EFFECTIVE ARE EXPERT TV HOSTS AT SAVING FAILING BUSINESSES? 0 0 5 49 0 0 11 121
Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 3 0 2 4 32
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 3 73 0 0 4 908
Income inequality and economic freedom in the U.S. states 0 2 2 59 3 8 10 240
Institutions, Capital, and Growth 0 1 3 15 3 6 14 39
Measuring the Growth and Variability of Tax Bases Over the Business Cycle 0 1 7 100 0 4 11 244
Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas (Eds.), The political economy of conflict and appropriation 0 0 1 30 1 9 11 142
Occupational safety and profit maximization: Friends or foes? 0 0 0 23 2 2 5 104
On the Measurement of Rent Seeking and Its Social Opportunity Cost 0 0 0 72 0 2 2 305
Optimal Taxation in a Federal System of Governments 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 11
PUBLIC POLICY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM 1 2 5 173 5 13 25 429
Public Policy Toward Pecuniary Externalities 0 0 0 36 5 9 19 143
Race, politics, and punishment 0 0 0 0 2 5 7 17
Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending at the state level: Keynesian stimulus or distributive politics? 0 0 0 7 2 2 3 117
Regulatory costs on entrepreneurship and establishment employment size 1 2 3 27 1 6 8 92
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 1 3 3 43
State Lottery Revenue: The Importance of Game Characteristics 0 0 2 11 1 4 8 65
State budget stabilization fund adoption: Preparing for the next recession or circumventing fiscal constraints? 0 0 0 46 0 2 4 243
Taxation and Product Quality: New Evidence from Generic Cigarettes 0 0 2 22 4 6 9 430
Testing Baumol: Institutional quality and the productivity of entrepreneurship 2 4 8 235 8 17 28 689
The Curse of Historic Resources 0 0 1 4 0 1 3 14
The Distinction Between True and Induced Free Riders: an Application to Gatt de Facto Membership 0 1 1 1 1 4 5 20
The Effect of Judicial Selection Processes on Judicial Quality: The Role of Partisan Politics 0 0 0 15 1 2 3 72
The Last 30 Years of Public Choice: An Analysis of Author and Institution Rankings 0 0 0 47 0 0 2 171
The League of Nations covenant and the United Nations charter: An analysis of two international constitutions 1 4 5 58 2 5 9 238
The Political Costs of Tax Increases and Expenditure Reductions: Evidence from State Legislative Turnover 0 0 0 25 1 2 3 148
The Political Economy of FEMA Disaster Payments 3 6 18 200 5 19 44 960
The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina 0 1 1 3 1 4 4 13
The Stability of International Coalitions in United Nations Voting from 1946 to 1973 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 411
The Unanimous Voting Rule Is Not the Political Equivalent to Market Exchange 0 0 0 24 4 4 5 514
The efficiency impact of uncertain taxes: an experimental study 0 1 1 2 0 1 4 8
The elephant in the room: why some states are refusing to expand Medicaid 0 0 1 5 1 2 7 28
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 0 1 3 265
The non-productive entrepreneurial process 0 0 0 20 1 2 6 130
The rise and decline of nations: the dynamic properties of institutional reform 1 0 0 1 14 1 3 4 40
The use of knowledge in technology entrepreneurship: A theoretical foundation 0 0 0 13 1 1 1 62
Theory and Evidence on the Political Economy of the Minimum Wage 1 1 4 153 4 7 16 437
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 3 4 5 104
Vibert's European union: A United Nations or a United States? 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 29
Weathering Corruption 0 0 0 67 5 6 9 261
What influences entrepreneurship among skilled immigrants in the USA? Evidence from micro-data 0 0 1 14 1 2 7 45
Youth Gangs as Pseudo‐Governments: Implications for Violent Crime 0 0 1 3 1 1 7 11
Total Journal Articles 11 42 129 3,368 136 319 662 16,403
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 0 1 3 38
Electoral Pressures and the Legal System: Friends or Foes? 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 6
Entrepreneurial creative destruction and legal federalism 0 1 1 10 1 2 5 61
The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management 0 0 0 5 1 1 5 63
The politics of elections and congressional oversight 0 0 0 7 0 1 2 34
Total Chapters 0 1 2 28 3 8 20 202


Statistics updated 2026-01-09