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Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 21 1 1 4 40
Protectionism Among the States: How Preference Policies Undermine Competition 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 3
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship 0 0 2 33 2 2 10 88
State lottery revenue: the importance of game characteristics 0 0 1 302 3 5 8 1,643
The political economy of FEMA disaster payments 0 1 1 158 2 7 14 585
Total Working Papers 0 1 4 530 8 15 36 2,359
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 5 5 5 9
An examination of the empirical derivatives of the favourite-longshot bias in racetrack betting 1 1 3 241 2 6 15 796
Analyzing the Effectiveness of State Regulatory Review 0 0 1 6 0 2 5 31
Automobile Safety Regulation and the Incentive to Drive Recklessly: Evidence from NASCAR 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 11
Beyond Borders: Is Media Freedom Contagious? 0 0 0 12 0 1 3 70
Bootleggers, Baptists, and the risks of rent seeking 0 0 1 10 1 2 8 68
Cointegrating Institutions: The Time-Series Properties of Country Institutional Measures 0 0 0 39 1 2 5 193
Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy 0 0 1 24 0 1 5 120
Consumption Externalities and Economic Welfare 0 0 2 88 0 1 8 357
Costly price discrimination 0 0 0 33 0 0 10 166
Defending the Articles of Confederation: A Reply to Dougherty 0 0 0 48 1 2 3 657
Do intergovernmental grants create ratchets in state and local taxes? 0 0 1 20 0 1 10 70
Do political motivations and strategic considerations influence municipal annexation patterns? 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12
Does Balance Among Areas of Institutional Quality Matter for Economic Growth? 0 0 0 5 0 2 8 62
Does Trust Always Help Gender Role Attitudes? The Role of Individualism and Collectivism 0 0 3 4 0 0 6 20
Does a Less Active Central Bank Lead to Greater Economic Stability? Evidence from the European Monetary Union 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 36
Does corruption ever help entrepreneurship? 1 2 5 95 4 9 24 321
Does cultural diversity increase the rate of entrepreneurship? 0 0 0 42 0 0 1 230
Does fiscal decentralization constrain Leviathan? New evidence from local property tax competition 0 0 0 34 2 4 7 116
Does fiscal decentralization result in a better business climate? 0 0 0 7 0 2 4 56
Does school choice increase the rate of youth entrepreneurship? 0 0 1 95 0 0 11 374
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 0 0 2 180
Entrepreneurship and human capital: The role of financial development 1 2 4 51 2 5 17 173
Entrepreneurship and political risk 0 1 4 26 4 12 21 504
Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, and economic policy 2 3 8 29 7 10 21 93
Exchange Rate Evidence on the Effectiveness of United Nations Policy 0 0 0 32 2 2 3 233
Exchange rate evidence on the effectiveness of United Nations policy 0 0 0 9 1 1 3 112
Expressive Voting and Government Redistribution: Testing Tullock's `Charity of the Uncharitable' 0 0 0 60 0 0 2 301
Foreign aid’s impact on domestic business climates 0 0 1 13 1 1 2 58
Freedom, barriers to entry, entrepreneurship, and economic progress 0 0 2 75 1 1 5 338
Gamblers favor skewness, not risk: Further evidence from United States' lottery games 0 0 7 159 6 7 18 499
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 4 5 6 171 7 13 21 824
HAS WAL‐MART BURIED MOM AND POP?: THE IMPACT OF WAL‐MART ON SELF‐EMPLOYMENT AND SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES 0 1 1 53 1 3 4 311
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 6 908
Income inequality and economic freedom in the U.S. states 1 2 2 59 3 5 7 237
Institutions, Capital, and Growth 0 1 3 15 2 3 11 36
Measuring the Growth and Variability of Tax Bases Over the Business Cycle 0 2 9 100 1 5 13 244
Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas (Eds.), The political economy of conflict and appropriation 0 0 1 30 1 8 10 141
Occupational safety and profit maximization: Friends or foes? 0 0 0 23 0 0 4 102
On the Measurement of Rent Seeking and Its Social Opportunity Cost 0 0 0 72 2 2 2 305
Optimal Taxation in a Federal System of Governments 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 10
PUBLIC POLICY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM 1 2 4 172 2 10 20 424
Public Policy Toward Pecuniary Externalities 0 0 0 36 2 4 15 138
Race, politics, and punishment 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 15
Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending at the state level: Keynesian stimulus or distributive politics? 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 115
Regulatory costs on entrepreneurship and establishment employment size 1 1 2 26 3 5 7 91
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 2 2 42
State Lottery Revenue: The Importance of Game Characteristics 0 1 2 11 2 4 7 64
State budget stabilization fund adoption: Preparing for the next recession or circumventing fiscal constraints? 0 0 0 46 1 2 4 243
Taxation and Product Quality: New Evidence from Generic Cigarettes 0 0 2 22 2 2 5 426
Testing Baumol: Institutional quality and the productivity of entrepreneurship 1 2 6 233 6 9 23 681
The Curse of Historic Resources 0 0 1 4 1 1 3 14
The Distinction Between True and Induced Free Riders: an Application to Gatt de Facto Membership 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 19
The Effect of Judicial Selection Processes on Judicial Quality: The Role of Partisan Politics 0 0 0 15 0 1 2 71
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 3 4 57 1 5 7 236
The Political Costs of Tax Increases and Expenditure Reductions: Evidence from State Legislative Turnover 0 0 0 25 1 1 2 147
The Political Economy of FEMA Disaster Payments 1 7 16 197 7 23 40 955
The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina 0 1 1 3 1 3 3 12
The Stability of International Coalitions in United Nations Voting from 1946 to 1973 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 410
The Unanimous Voting Rule Is Not the Political Equivalent to Market Exchange 0 0 0 24 0 0 1 510
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 1 6 27
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 1 5 129
The rise and decline of nations: the dynamic properties of institutional reform 1 0 1 1 14 0 3 3 39
The use of knowledge in technology entrepreneurship: A theoretical foundation 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 61
Theory and Evidence on the Political Economy of the Minimum Wage 0 1 3 152 2 5 13 433
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 2 101
Vibert's European union: A United Nations or a United States? 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 28
Weathering Corruption 0 0 0 67 1 1 5 256
What influences entrepreneurship among skilled immigrants in the USA? Evidence from micro-data 0 0 1 14 1 2 6 44
Youth Gangs as Pseudo‐Governments: Implications for Violent Crime 0 0 1 3 0 0 6 10
Total Journal Articles 16 42 122 3,357 98 220 547 16,267
2 registered items for which data could not be found


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Does fiscal decentralization result in a better business climate? 0 1 1 6 1 2 3 38
Electoral Pressures and the Legal System: Friends or Foes? 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 5
Entrepreneurial creative destruction and legal federalism 0 1 1 10 0 1 4 60
The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management 0 0 0 5 0 0 6 62
The politics of elections and congressional oversight 0 0 0 7 1 1 2 34
Total Chapters 0 2 2 28 3 6 19 199


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