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Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 21 4 7 9 47
Protectionism Among the States: How Preference Policies Undermine Competition 0 0 0 16 0 2 2 5
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship 1 1 2 34 4 13 17 101
State lottery revenue: the importance of game characteristics 0 0 1 302 1 2 9 1,645
The political economy of FEMA disaster payments 0 0 1 158 1 14 28 599
Total Working Papers 1 1 4 531 10 38 65 2,397
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 4 4 225
A Reply to a Replication of “Weathering Corruption†( Journal of Law and Economics, 2008): Different Data Produce Different Results 0 0 0 1 0 2 7 11
An examination of the empirical derivatives of the favourite-longshot bias in racetrack betting 0 0 3 241 1 7 21 803
Analyzing the Effectiveness of State Regulatory Review 0 1 2 7 1 6 10 37
Automobile Safety Regulation and the Incentive to Drive Recklessly: Evidence from NASCAR 0 0 0 2 1 3 6 14
Beyond Borders: Is Media Freedom Contagious? 0 0 0 12 0 5 8 75
Bootleggers, Baptists, and the risks of rent seeking 0 0 1 10 1 6 14 74
Cointegrating Institutions: The Time-Series Properties of Country Institutional Measures 0 0 0 39 2 6 10 199
Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy 0 0 0 24 0 7 10 127
Consumption Externalities and Economic Welfare 0 1 2 89 0 5 7 362
Costly price discrimination 0 0 0 33 0 4 10 170
Defending the Articles of Confederation: A Reply to Dougherty 0 1 1 49 0 1 3 658
Do intergovernmental grants create ratchets in state and local taxes? 0 0 1 20 1 5 14 75
Do political motivations and strategic considerations influence municipal annexation patterns? 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 16
Does Balance Among Areas of Institutional Quality Matter for Economic Growth? 0 1 1 6 0 12 20 74
Does Trust Always Help Gender Role Attitudes? The Role of Individualism and Collectivism 0 0 2 4 0 4 9 24
Does a Less Active Central Bank Lead to Greater Economic Stability? Evidence from the European Monetary Union 0 0 0 5 0 4 5 40
Does corruption ever help entrepreneurship? 0 2 6 97 1 6 26 327
Does cultural diversity increase the rate of entrepreneurship? 0 0 0 42 0 3 3 233
Does fiscal decentralization constrain Leviathan? New evidence from local property tax competition 0 0 0 34 0 5 10 121
Does fiscal decentralization result in a better business climate? 0 1 1 8 1 7 10 63
Does school choice increase the rate of youth entrepreneurship? 0 0 1 95 0 15 23 389
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 2 3 4 183
Entrepreneurship and human capital: The role of financial development 0 0 3 51 1 7 20 180
Entrepreneurship and political risk 0 0 3 26 1 7 27 511
Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, and economic policy 1 1 8 30 2 7 25 100
Exchange Rate Evidence on the Effectiveness of United Nations Policy 0 0 0 32 0 3 6 236
Exchange rate evidence on the effectiveness of United Nations policy 0 0 0 9 0 3 5 115
Expressive Voting and Government Redistribution: Testing Tullock's `Charity of the Uncharitable' 0 0 0 60 1 6 7 307
Foreign aid’s impact on domestic business climates 0 0 1 13 0 2 4 60
Freedom, barriers to entry, entrepreneurship, and economic progress 0 0 2 75 2 5 10 343
Gamblers favor skewness, not risk: Further evidence from United States' lottery games 0 0 4 159 2 36 49 535
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, The Political Economy of the European Union: Institutions, Policy, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 105 1 4 5 326
Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis 1 1 6 172 4 10 28 834
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 1 39 43 350
HOW EFFECTIVE ARE EXPERT TV HOSTS AT SAVING FAILING BUSINESSES? 0 0 5 49 11 12 23 133
Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 3 2 8 12 40
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 1 1 4 909
Income inequality and economic freedom in the U.S. states 0 0 2 59 2 8 15 245
Institutions, Capital, and Growth 0 0 2 15 0 4 13 40
Measuring the Growth and Variability of Tax Bases Over the Business Cycle 0 0 6 100 3 7 17 251
Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas (Eds.), The political economy of conflict and appropriation 0 0 1 30 0 23 33 164
Occupational safety and profit maximization: Friends or foes? 0 0 0 23 0 5 5 107
On the Measurement of Rent Seeking and Its Social Opportunity Cost 0 1 1 73 2 4 6 309
Optimal Taxation in a Federal System of Governments 0 0 0 4 0 7 9 17
PUBLIC POLICY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM 0 3 7 175 1 10 27 434
Public Policy Toward Pecuniary Externalities 0 0 0 36 4 12 20 150
Race, politics, and punishment 0 0 0 0 0 4 8 19
Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending at the state level: Keynesian stimulus or distributive politics? 0 0 0 7 1 8 9 123
Regulatory costs on entrepreneurship and establishment employment size 0 1 3 27 1 6 13 97
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 3 5 45
State Lottery Revenue: The Importance of Game Characteristics 0 0 1 11 1 6 11 70
State budget stabilization fund adoption: Preparing for the next recession or circumventing fiscal constraints? 1 1 1 47 2 4 7 247
Taxation and Product Quality: New Evidence from Generic Cigarettes 0 0 2 22 1 10 15 436
Testing Baumol: Institutional quality and the productivity of entrepreneurship 0 3 8 236 5 19 35 700
The Curse of Historic Resources 0 0 0 4 0 3 4 17
The Distinction Between True and Induced Free Riders: an Application to Gatt de Facto Membership 0 0 1 1 0 5 9 24
The Effect of Judicial Selection Processes on Judicial Quality: The Role of Partisan Politics 0 0 0 15 0 3 4 74
The Last 30 Years of Public Choice: An Analysis of Author and Institution Rankings 0 0 0 47 0 1 3 172
The League of Nations covenant and the United Nations charter: An analysis of two international constitutions 0 1 5 58 5 13 19 249
The Political Costs of Tax Increases and Expenditure Reductions: Evidence from State Legislative Turnover 0 0 0 25 1 2 4 149
The Political Economy of FEMA Disaster Payments 2 6 20 203 7 23 59 978
The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina 0 1 2 4 0 3 6 15
The Stability of International Coalitions in United Nations Voting from 1946 to 1973 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 413
The Unanimous Voting Rule Is Not the Political Equivalent to Market Exchange 0 0 0 24 0 6 7 516
The efficiency impact of uncertain taxes: an experimental study 0 0 1 2 0 3 7 11
The elephant in the room: why some states are refusing to expand Medicaid 0 1 2 6 0 4 9 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 2 4 267
The non-productive entrepreneurial process 0 1 1 21 1 6 9 135
The rise and decline of nations: the dynamic properties of institutional reform 1 0 0 1 14 1 6 9 45
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 3 153 0 8 18 441
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 1 6 8 107
Vibert's European union: A United Nations or a United States? 0 0 0 1 0 8 9 36
Weathering Corruption 0 1 1 68 1 11 14 267
What influences entrepreneurship among skilled immigrants in the USA? Evidence from micro-data 0 0 0 14 0 4 8 48
Youth Gangs as Pseudo‐Governments: Implications for Violent Crime 0 0 0 3 0 3 6 13
Total Journal Articles 5 30 128 3,387 81 538 976 16,805
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 6 1 4 7 42
Electoral Pressures and the Legal System: Friends or Foes? 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 7
Entrepreneurial creative destruction and legal federalism 0 0 1 10 1 5 9 65
The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management 0 0 0 5 0 3 7 65
The politics of elections and congressional oversight 0 0 0 7 0 2 4 36
Total Chapters 0 0 2 28 2 16 33 215


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