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Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 21 1 1 11 50
Protectionism Among the States: How Preference Policies Undermine Competition 0 0 0 16 3 5 9 12
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship 0 0 1 34 1 2 21 107
State lottery revenue: the importance of game characteristics 0 0 0 302 4 5 16 1,656
The political economy of FEMA disaster payments 0 0 1 159 4 6 36 619
Total Working Papers 0 0 2 532 13 19 93 2,444
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 2 6 227
A Reply to a Replication of “Weathering Corruption†( Journal of Law and Economics, 2008): Different Data Produce Different Results 0 0 0 1 3 3 12 16
An examination of the empirical derivatives of the favourite-longshot bias in racetrack betting 0 0 3 243 4 5 25 819
Analyzing the Effectiveness of State Regulatory Review 0 0 3 9 2 2 21 52
Automobile Safety Regulation and the Incentive to Drive Recklessly: Evidence from NASCAR 0 0 1 3 1 2 14 25
Beyond Borders: Is Media Freedom Contagious? 0 0 0 12 1 1 9 79
Bootleggers, Baptists, and the risks of rent seeking 2 2 2 12 5 5 17 84
Cointegrating Institutions: The Time-Series Properties of Country Institutional Measures 0 0 0 39 3 4 15 207
Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy 0 0 0 24 0 0 16 136
Consumption Externalities and Economic Welfare 0 0 1 89 2 3 11 368
Costly price discrimination 0 0 0 33 2 3 15 181
Defending the Articles of Confederation: A Reply to Dougherty 0 0 1 49 3 3 8 664
Do intergovernmental grants create ratchets in state and local taxes? 0 0 1 21 4 6 16 86
Do political motivations and strategic considerations influence municipal annexation patterns? 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 21
Does Balance Among Areas of Institutional Quality Matter for Economic Growth? 0 0 1 6 2 2 17 79
Does Trust Always Help Gender Role Attitudes? The Role of Individualism and Collectivism 0 0 0 4 1 4 14 34
Does a Less Active Central Bank Lead to Greater Economic Stability? Evidence from the European Monetary Union 0 0 0 5 3 5 12 48
Does corruption ever help entrepreneurship? 0 0 3 97 1 2 20 337
Does cultural diversity increase the rate of entrepreneurship? 0 0 0 42 2 3 12 242
Does fiscal decentralization constrain Leviathan? New evidence from local property tax competition 0 0 0 34 1 2 16 130
Does fiscal decentralization result in a better business climate? 0 0 1 8 2 3 13 69
Does school choice increase the rate of youth entrepreneurship? 0 1 1 96 1 2 19 393
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 0 2 2 2 7 9
Empirical Evidence on the Publicness of State Legislative Activities 0 0 0 0 3 4 9 189
Entrepreneurship and human capital: The role of financial development 0 1 2 52 1 3 19 190
Entrepreneurship and political risk 0 0 1 27 2 3 37 537
Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, and economic policy 0 1 5 32 1 2 28 114
Exchange Rate Evidence on the Effectiveness of United Nations Policy 0 0 0 32 1 1 15 246
Exchange rate evidence on the effectiveness of United Nations policy 0 0 0 9 0 0 9 120
Expressive Voting and Government Redistribution: Testing Tullock's `Charity of the Uncharitable' 0 0 0 60 1 3 12 313
Foreign aid’s impact on domestic business climates 0 0 0 13 2 2 9 66
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 1 1 2 161 6 8 55 548
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, The Political Economy of the European Union: Institutions, Policy, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 105 1 2 7 329
Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis 0 0 5 172 4 6 30 847
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 5 5 54 364
HOW EFFECTIVE ARE EXPERT TV HOSTS AT SAVING FAILING BUSINESSES? 0 0 4 53 6 7 27 148
Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 3 0 1 13 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 1 1 3 911
Income inequality and economic freedom in the U.S. states 0 0 1 59 3 3 19 253
Institutions, Capital, and Growth 0 1 2 17 1 2 13 47
Measuring the Growth and Variability of Tax Bases Over the Business Cycle 3 4 4 104 4 6 21 264
Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas (Eds.), The political economy of conflict and appropriation 0 0 0 30 2 2 27 167
Occupational safety and profit maximization: Friends or foes? 0 0 0 23 2 2 11 113
On the Measurement of Rent Seeking and Its Social Opportunity Cost 0 0 1 73 2 2 11 314
Optimal Taxation in a Federal System of Governments 0 0 0 4 2 2 11 21
PUBLIC POLICY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM 0 0 6 177 0 2 26 448
Public Policy Toward Pecuniary Externalities 1 3 4 40 8 11 37 173
Race, politics, and punishment 0 0 0 0 5 5 13 26
Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending at the state level: Keynesian stimulus or distributive politics? 0 1 2 9 1 2 14 129
Regulatory costs on entrepreneurship and establishment employment size 0 0 3 28 3 4 16 104
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 6 47
State Lottery Revenue: The Importance of Game Characteristics 0 0 0 11 1 1 11 73
State budget stabilization fund adoption: Preparing for the next recession or circumventing fiscal constraints? 0 0 1 47 2 2 11 253
Taxation and Product Quality: New Evidence from Generic Cigarettes 0 0 0 22 6 8 21 445
Testing Baumol: Institutional quality and the productivity of entrepreneurship 1 1 5 237 11 14 46 721
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 1 2 11 28
The Effect of Judicial Selection Processes on Judicial Quality: The Role of Partisan Politics 0 0 1 16 2 2 10 81
The Last 30 Years of Public Choice: An Analysis of Author and Institution Rankings 0 0 0 47 3 4 7 178
The League of Nations covenant and the United Nations charter: An analysis of two international constitutions 0 0 3 59 5 6 41 276
The Political Costs of Tax Increases and Expenditure Reductions: Evidence from State Legislative Turnover 0 1 1 26 1 3 9 155
The Political Economy of FEMA Disaster Payments 0 1 13 209 4 8 60 1,008
The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina 1 1 3 6 2 2 9 20
The Stability of International Coalitions in United Nations Voting from 1946 to 1973 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 417
The Unanimous Voting Rule Is Not the Political Equivalent to Market Exchange 0 0 0 24 1 2 10 520
The efficiency impact of uncertain taxes: an experimental study 0 0 0 2 1 2 6 14
The elephant in the room: why some states are refusing to expand Medicaid 0 0 1 6 1 2 9 35
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 5 270
The non-productive entrepreneurial process 0 0 1 21 1 2 12 140
The rise and decline of nations: the dynamic properties of institutional reform 1 0 0 0 14 2 2 16 55
The use of knowledge in technology entrepreneurship: A theoretical foundation 0 0 0 13 1 3 8 69
Theory and Evidence on the Political Economy of the Minimum Wage 0 0 3 155 2 4 17 448
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 1 1 10 110
Vibert's European union: A United Nations or a United States? 0 0 0 1 1 2 14 42
Weathering Corruption 0 1 3 70 1 4 21 276
What influences entrepreneurship among skilled immigrants in the USA? Evidence from micro-data 0 0 0 14 3 4 12 55
Youth Gangs as Pseudo‐Governments: Implications for Violent Crime 1 1 1 4 3 3 8 18
Total Journal Articles 10 21 97 3,438 172 246 1,287 17,456
2 registered items for which data could not be found


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Does fiscal decentralization result in a better business climate? 0 0 1 7 2 2 13 50
Electoral Pressures and the Legal System: Friends or Foes? 0 0 0 0 4 4 9 13
Entrepreneurial creative destruction and legal federalism 0 0 0 10 1 15 20 80
The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management 0 0 0 5 2 2 9 71
The politics of elections and congressional oversight 0 0 0 7 3 3 7 40
Total Chapters 0 0 1 29 12 26 58 254


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