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Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 21 1 5 10 48
Protectionism Among the States: How Preference Policies Undermine Competition 0 0 0 16 1 1 3 6
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship 0 1 1 34 1 5 17 102
State lottery revenue: the importance of game characteristics 0 0 1 302 5 7 15 1,651
The political economy of FEMA disaster payments 0 1 2 159 4 6 30 604
Total Working Papers 0 2 4 532 12 24 75 2,411
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 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 1 8 12
An examination of the empirical derivatives of the favourite-longshot bias in racetrack betting 0 0 3 241 2 4 20 806
Analyzing the Effectiveness of State Regulatory Review 0 0 2 7 3 5 14 41
Automobile Safety Regulation and the Incentive to Drive Recklessly: Evidence from NASCAR 1 1 1 3 6 8 13 21
Beyond Borders: Is Media Freedom Contagious? 0 0 0 12 0 0 8 75
Bootleggers, Baptists, and the risks of rent seeking 0 0 1 10 4 6 17 79
Cointegrating Institutions: The Time-Series Properties of Country Institutional Measures 0 0 0 39 2 5 13 202
Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy 0 0 0 24 5 5 15 132
Consumption Externalities and Economic Welfare 0 0 1 89 3 3 9 365
Costly price discrimination 0 0 0 33 5 7 15 177
Defending the Articles of Confederation: A Reply to Dougherty 0 0 1 49 3 3 6 661
Do intergovernmental grants create ratchets in state and local taxes? 0 0 0 20 1 3 15 77
Do political motivations and strategic considerations influence municipal annexation patterns? 0 0 0 0 3 3 7 19
Does Balance Among Areas of Institutional Quality Matter for Economic Growth? 0 0 1 6 2 2 21 76
Does Trust Always Help Gender Role Attitudes? The Role of Individualism and Collectivism 0 0 2 4 1 4 12 28
Does a Less Active Central Bank Lead to Greater Economic Stability? Evidence from the European Monetary Union 0 0 0 5 1 2 7 42
Does corruption ever help entrepreneurship? 0 0 6 97 3 6 31 332
Does cultural diversity increase the rate of entrepreneurship? 0 0 0 42 4 5 8 238
Does fiscal decentralization constrain Leviathan? New evidence from local property tax competition 0 0 0 34 4 4 14 125
Does fiscal decentralization result in a better business climate? 0 0 1 8 3 4 12 66
Does school choice increase the rate of youth entrepreneurship? 0 0 1 95 0 0 21 389
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 3 3 4 5
Empirical Evidence on the Publicness of State Legislative Activities 0 0 0 0 1 4 6 185
Entrepreneurship and human capital: The role of financial development 0 0 3 51 0 2 20 181
Entrepreneurship and political risk 1 1 3 27 8 18 41 528
Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, and economic policy 0 1 7 30 6 9 31 107
Exchange Rate Evidence on the Effectiveness of United Nations Policy 0 0 0 32 4 5 11 241
Exchange rate evidence on the effectiveness of United Nations policy 0 0 0 9 3 3 8 118
Expressive Voting and Government Redistribution: Testing Tullock's `Charity of the Uncharitable' 0 0 0 60 0 2 7 308
Foreign aid’s impact on domestic business climates 0 0 1 13 2 2 6 62
Freedom, barriers to entry, entrepreneurship, and economic progress 0 0 2 75 1 4 12 345
Gamblers favor skewness, not risk: Further evidence from United States' lottery games 1 1 2 160 1 4 47 537
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, The Political Economy of the European Union: Institutions, Policy, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 105 1 2 6 327
Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis 0 1 6 172 4 10 33 840
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 4 7 49 356
HOW EFFECTIVE ARE EXPERT TV HOSTS AT SAVING FAILING BUSINESSES? 3 3 6 52 5 16 22 138
Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? 0 0 0 3 2 5 13 43
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 2 4 910
Income inequality and economic freedom in the U.S. states 0 0 2 59 4 6 19 249
Institutions, Capital, and Growth 1 1 3 16 4 4 15 44
Measuring the Growth and Variability of Tax Bases Over the Business Cycle 0 0 4 100 4 7 19 255
Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas (Eds.), The political economy of conflict and appropriation 0 0 1 30 0 0 33 164
Occupational safety and profit maximization: Friends or foes? 0 0 0 23 1 2 7 109
On the Measurement of Rent Seeking and Its Social Opportunity Cost 0 0 1 73 1 4 8 311
Optimal Taxation in a Federal System of Governments 0 0 0 4 2 2 11 19
PUBLIC POLICY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM 0 0 7 175 4 6 31 439
Public Policy Toward Pecuniary Externalities 0 0 0 36 6 13 26 159
Race, politics, and punishment 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 21
Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending at the state level: Keynesian stimulus or distributive politics? 0 1 1 8 0 2 10 124
Regulatory costs on entrepreneurship and establishment employment size 0 1 3 28 0 2 13 98
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 1 6 46
State Lottery Revenue: The Importance of Game Characteristics 0 0 1 11 0 2 11 71
State budget stabilization fund adoption: Preparing for the next recession or circumventing fiscal constraints? 0 1 1 47 3 6 10 251
Taxation and Product Quality: New Evidence from Generic Cigarettes 0 0 2 22 1 2 16 437
Testing Baumol: Institutional quality and the productivity of entrepreneurship 0 0 7 236 1 8 36 703
The Curse of Historic Resources 0 0 0 4 0 2 6 19
The Distinction Between True and Induced Free Riders: an Application to Gatt de Facto Membership 0 0 1 1 2 2 10 26
The Effect of Judicial Selection Processes on Judicial Quality: The Role of Partisan Politics 0 0 0 15 3 4 8 78
The Last 30 Years of Public Choice: An Analysis of Author and Institution Rankings 0 0 0 47 2 2 4 174
The League of Nations covenant and the United Nations charter: An analysis of two international constitutions 0 0 5 58 13 21 35 265
The Political Costs of Tax Increases and Expenditure Reductions: Evidence from State Legislative Turnover 0 0 0 25 3 4 7 152
The Political Economy of FEMA Disaster Payments 2 4 20 205 5 16 65 987
The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina 0 0 2 4 0 1 7 16
The Stability of International Coalitions in United Nations Voting from 1946 to 1973 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 414
The Unanimous Voting Rule Is Not the Political Equivalent to Market Exchange 0 0 0 24 2 2 9 518
The efficiency impact of uncertain taxes: an experimental study 0 0 1 2 1 1 6 12
The elephant in the room: why some states are refusing to expand Medicaid 0 0 2 6 2 2 11 33
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 4 268
The non-productive entrepreneurial process 0 0 1 21 1 3 11 137
The rise and decline of nations: the dynamic properties of institutional reform 1 0 0 1 14 6 7 15 51
The use of knowledge in technology entrepreneurship: A theoretical foundation 0 0 0 13 3 3 4 65
Theory and Evidence on the Political Economy of the Minimum Wage 1 1 4 154 2 2 18 443
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 2 3 10 109
Vibert's European union: A United Nations or a United States? 0 0 0 1 3 3 12 39
Weathering Corruption 1 1 2 69 3 4 17 270
What influences entrepreneurship among skilled immigrants in the USA? Evidence from micro-data 0 0 0 14 2 2 9 50
Youth Gangs as Pseudo‐Governments: Implications for Violent Crime 0 0 0 3 2 2 7 15
Total Journal Articles 11 18 126 3,400 193 336 1,170 17,060
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 4 5 11 46
Electoral Pressures and the Legal System: Friends or Foes? 0 0 0 0 2 2 8 9
Entrepreneurial creative destruction and legal federalism 0 0 1 10 0 1 8 65
The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management 0 0 0 5 3 3 10 68
The politics of elections and congressional oversight 0 0 0 7 1 1 5 37
Total Chapters 0 0 2 28 10 12 42 225


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