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Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 21 0 0 10 49
Protectionism Among the States: How Preference Policies Undermine Competition 0 0 0 16 1 2 6 9
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship 0 0 1 34 1 1 20 106
State lottery revenue: the importance of game characteristics 0 0 0 302 0 1 13 1,652
The political economy of FEMA disaster payments 0 0 1 159 0 2 33 615
Total Working Papers 0 0 2 532 2 6 82 2,431
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 1 1 5 226
A Reply to a Replication of “Weathering Corruption†( Journal of Law and Economics, 2008): Different Data Produce Different Results 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 13
An examination of the empirical derivatives of the favourite-longshot bias in racetrack betting 0 0 3 243 1 4 22 815
Analyzing the Effectiveness of State Regulatory Review 0 0 3 9 0 1 21 50
Automobile Safety Regulation and the Incentive to Drive Recklessly: Evidence from NASCAR 0 0 1 3 1 2 15 24
Beyond Borders: Is Media Freedom Contagious? 0 0 0 12 0 2 9 78
Bootleggers, Baptists, and the risks of rent seeking 0 0 0 10 0 0 13 79
Cointegrating Institutions: The Time-Series Properties of Country Institutional Measures 0 0 0 39 0 1 13 204
Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy 0 0 0 24 0 1 16 136
Consumption Externalities and Economic Welfare 0 0 1 89 1 1 10 366
Costly price discrimination 0 0 0 33 1 1 13 179
Defending the Articles of Confederation: A Reply to Dougherty 0 0 1 49 0 0 6 661
Do intergovernmental grants create ratchets in state and local taxes? 0 1 1 21 1 4 13 82
Do political motivations and strategic considerations influence municipal annexation patterns? 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 20
Does Balance Among Areas of Institutional Quality Matter for Economic Growth? 0 0 1 6 0 0 17 77
Does Trust Always Help Gender Role Attitudes? The Role of Individualism and Collectivism 0 0 0 4 2 3 13 33
Does a Less Active Central Bank Lead to Greater Economic Stability? Evidence from the European Monetary Union 0 0 0 5 0 2 9 45
Does corruption ever help entrepreneurship? 0 0 4 97 1 1 21 336
Does cultural diversity increase the rate of entrepreneurship? 0 0 0 42 0 2 10 240
Does fiscal decentralization constrain Leviathan? New evidence from local property tax competition 0 0 0 34 1 2 17 129
Does fiscal decentralization result in a better business climate? 0 0 1 8 0 1 12 67
Does school choice increase the rate of youth entrepreneurship? 1 1 1 96 1 2 18 392
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 1 6 7
Empirical Evidence on the Publicness of State Legislative Activities 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 186
Entrepreneurship and human capital: The role of financial development 1 1 3 52 2 4 21 189
Entrepreneurship and political risk 0 0 1 27 1 2 39 535
Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, and economic policy 1 1 6 32 1 2 30 113
Exchange Rate Evidence on the Effectiveness of United Nations Policy 0 0 0 32 0 1 14 245
Exchange rate evidence on the effectiveness of United Nations policy 0 0 0 9 0 1 9 120
Expressive Voting and Government Redistribution: Testing Tullock's `Charity of the Uncharitable' 0 0 0 60 1 2 11 312
Foreign aid’s impact on domestic business climates 0 0 0 13 0 0 7 64
Freedom, barriers to entry, entrepreneurship, and economic progress 0 0 0 75 0 3 13 350
Gamblers favor skewness, not risk: Further evidence from United States' lottery games 0 0 1 160 1 3 50 542
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, The Political Economy of the European Union: Institutions, Policy, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 105 0 1 7 328
Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis 0 0 6 172 1 2 29 843
HAS WAL‐MART BURIED MOM AND POP?: THE IMPACT OF WAL‐MART ON SELF‐EMPLOYMENT AND SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES 0 0 0 53 0 1 50 359
HOW EFFECTIVE ARE EXPERT TV HOSTS AT SAVING FAILING BUSINESSES? 0 0 4 53 0 3 21 142
Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 3 0 1 15 45
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 0 73 0 0 2 910
Income inequality and economic freedom in the U.S. states 0 0 2 59 0 0 18 250
Institutions, Capital, and Growth 0 1 3 17 0 1 13 46
Measuring the Growth and Variability of Tax Bases Over the Business Cycle 0 1 2 101 0 3 20 260
Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas (Eds.), The political economy of conflict and appropriation 0 0 0 30 0 0 32 165
Occupational safety and profit maximization: Friends or foes? 0 0 0 23 0 0 9 111
On the Measurement of Rent Seeking and Its Social Opportunity Cost 0 0 1 73 0 0 9 312
Optimal Taxation in a Federal System of Governments 0 0 0 4 0 0 9 19
PUBLIC POLICY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM 0 1 6 177 1 3 32 448
Public Policy Toward Pecuniary Externalities 1 3 3 39 2 4 31 165
Race, politics, and punishment 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 21
Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending at the state level: Keynesian stimulus or distributive politics? 1 1 2 9 1 2 13 128
Regulatory costs on entrepreneurship and establishment employment size 0 0 3 28 1 1 15 101
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 0 1 7 47
State Lottery Revenue: The Importance of Game Characteristics 0 0 0 11 0 1 11 72
State budget stabilization fund adoption: Preparing for the next recession or circumventing fiscal constraints? 0 0 1 47 0 0 10 251
Taxation and Product Quality: New Evidence from Generic Cigarettes 0 0 0 22 2 2 15 439
Testing Baumol: Institutional quality and the productivity of entrepreneurship 0 0 5 236 2 4 38 710
The Curse of Historic Resources 0 0 0 4 0 0 7 20
The Distinction Between True and Induced Free Riders: an Application to Gatt de Facto Membership 0 0 1 1 0 1 11 27
The Effect of Judicial Selection Processes on Judicial Quality: The Role of Partisan Politics 0 0 1 16 0 0 9 79
The Last 30 Years of Public Choice: An Analysis of Author and Institution Rankings 0 0 0 47 0 1 4 175
The League of Nations covenant and the United Nations charter: An analysis of two international constitutions 0 0 5 59 0 2 38 271
The Political Costs of Tax Increases and Expenditure Reductions: Evidence from State Legislative Turnover 0 1 1 26 0 2 8 154
The Political Economy of FEMA Disaster Payments 0 1 15 209 2 4 63 1,004
The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina 0 0 3 5 0 0 9 18
The Stability of International Coalitions in United Nations Voting from 1946 to 1973 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 416
The Unanimous Voting Rule Is Not the Political Equivalent to Market Exchange 0 0 0 24 1 1 9 519
The efficiency impact of uncertain taxes: an experimental study 0 0 1 2 0 1 6 13
The elephant in the room: why some states are refusing to expand Medicaid 0 0 1 6 0 1 8 34
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 5 269
The non-productive entrepreneurial process 0 0 1 21 0 2 11 139
The rise and decline of nations: the dynamic properties of institutional reform 1 0 0 0 14 0 0 16 53
The use of knowledge in technology entrepreneurship: A theoretical foundation 0 0 0 13 1 2 7 68
Theory and Evidence on the Political Economy of the Minimum Wage 0 0 3 155 0 2 16 446
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 0 0 9 109
Vibert's European union: A United Nations or a United States? 0 0 0 1 1 1 13 41
Weathering Corruption 1 1 3 70 2 4 20 275
What influences entrepreneurship among skilled immigrants in the USA? Evidence from micro-data 0 0 0 14 1 1 9 52
Youth Gangs as Pseudo‐Governments: Implications for Violent Crime 0 0 0 3 0 0 5 15
Total Journal Articles 6 14 102 3,428 37 110 1,200 17,284
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 7 0 0 11 48
Electoral Pressures and the Legal System: Friends or Foes? 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 9
Entrepreneurial creative destruction and legal federalism 0 0 1 10 0 14 20 79
The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management 0 0 0 5 0 1 7 69
The politics of elections and congressional oversight 0 0 0 7 0 0 4 37
Total Chapters 0 0 2 29 0 15 48 242


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