Published papers by year
Published papers by topic
Books
and book chapters
Book
reviews.
Working papers in Working Papers Series
Working papers
Other
publications (not in English)
ESRC project: Economic Policy
and
Political Myopia
ESRC project: Voting rights and public policy
Conference: Voting
rights and
public policy August 6-8 2007.
Workshop: Political
Economics
March
30
2009.
Silvaplana 2010:
19th
Workshop in Political Economy, July 24-28 2010.

Forthcoming papers
35. How to get the snowball
rolling and
extend the
franchise: Voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832 (with R. Franck).
Public Choice, forthcoming.
(Older version in
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0832). Online Appendix.
6.
The political
economy of instrument choice, draft entry prepared for the
“Encyclopedia of
Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics”, Elsevier,
forthcoming.
Published
in
Refereed
Journals,
by
year
2012
34. Distributive
Politics
and
Electoral
Incentives: Evidence from Seven
US State Legislatures (with Julia Shvets). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
4(3), 1-29. Online
appendix. Replication data.
(Older
versions
in
Cambridge Working Papers
in Economics 1130, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge or
CESifo Working Paper Series
3405,
CESifo Group Munich).
2011
33.
The causes of corruption. CESifo
DICE Report, Journal for
Institutional Comparison 9(2), 15-19, 2011.
32. Political
Competition,
Participation
and
Public
Finance
in
20th
Century
Latin
America
(with Dalibor S. Eterovic). European
Journal of Political Economy 27(1), 181-200.
31. Critical Decisions and
Constitutional rules (with
F. Giovannoni). Social
Choice and Welfare 37 (2), 219-268 .
30. Election Results and
Opportunistic Policies: A New Test of the Rational Political Business
Cycle
Model (with Francisco José Veiga and Linda Gonçalves Veiga). Public
Choice 148 (1-2), 21-44. (Older version in Working
Paper 24/2007, Universidade
do
Minho
and
NIPE
and in Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0935).
29.
Political Regimes and Foreign
Intervention (with
Facundo Albornoz). Journal of Development
Economics
94, 192-201 (Alternative version in Cambridge Working Papers in
Economics 09). Online Appendix A
and B.
2010
28. Green Taxes: Refunding Rules and
Lobbying. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
60,
31-43. Supplementary Material.
Data.
27. Do Autocratic States Trade
Less?
(with M. Gassebner). The World Bank Economic Review 24 (1): 38-76.
26. The Retrenchment hypothesis and the
extension of the franchise in England and Wales (with J.
Dutta and M.
Daunton). The Economic Journal
120, 990-1020. Technical
Appendix. Data: read me . Data Set.
2009
25. Strategic Consensus and Heterogenous Voters:
Provison
of Public Goods with Random Voter Turnout (with J. Dutta). Public
Finance
and
Management 9(2). (Older version in Cambridge Working Papers in
Economics 0843).
24. Corruption, Institutions and Economic
Development,
Oxford Review of Economic Policy 25, 271-291 (Older version in Cambridge
Working Papers in Economics 0918).
23. The Taxman Tools Up: An Event History Study
of the
Introduction of the Personal Income Tax, 1815-1938 (with Peter S
Jensen). Journal
of Public Economics 93, 160-175. (Older version in Cambridge
Working Papers
in Economics 0766).
22. Tax Structure, Size of Government and the
Extension
of the Voting Franchise in Western Europe, 1860-1938 (with Peter S
Jensen).
International Tax and Public Finance 16, 362-394. Robustness Checks. Tax Return from
1887: page 1, page
2, page 3, page 4, page
5. (Older version in Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
0715).
2008
21. Policy compromises:
corruption and
regulation in a democracy (with J. Dutta). Economics and
Politics
20(3), 335-360 (Older version in Cambridge Working Papers in Economics,
0404).
20. Enduring rents (with Arye Hillman). European
Journal
of
Political
Economy
24, 545-53 [Lead article] (Longer version in
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0802).
19. Trade unions, collective
bargaining and
macroeconomic performance: a review (with Z. Tzannatos). Industrial
Relations
Journal
39(4), 258-295. [Lead article]
18. Internalization of Cross National
Externalities
Through International Lobbying: The Case of Labour Stanstards (with
Uk
Hwang). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 164,
509-533.
Extra appendix.
17. Governance Regimes, Corruption and Growth:
Theory and
Evidence (with J. Dutta and V. Sena). Journal of Comparative
Economics
36, 195-220. (Older version in Cambridge Working Papers in
Economics,
0540).
16. Female voting power: the
contribution of
women's suffrage to the growth of social spending in Western Europe
(1869-1960)
(with Bianca Dallal). Public Choice 134 (3-4), 391-417.
2007
15. Policy myopia and economic growth
(with J.
Dutta). European Journal of Political Economy 23, 734-753.
14.
Unions and microeconomic performance: A look at what matters for hard
core
economists (employers) (with Z. Tzannatos) International
Labour Review
145, 257-278. [Lead acticle]
2006
13. A power law distribution for tenure
lengths of
sports managers (with B. Leong, D. Sgroi and W.C. Saslaw). Physica
A
370,
2006, 697-703.
12. Capital taxation and electoral
accountability (with F. Magris). European Journal of Political
Economy 22, Issue 2, 2006, 277-291
.
11. Democracy comes to Europe: franchise
expansion and
fiscal outcomes 1830-1938. (with Dutta, J., and Loukoianova,
E). European
Economic
Review 50 (2),
February 2006, 249-283.
2005
10.
The
Rise
of
Environmentalism,
Pollution
Taxes
and
Intra-industry Trade Economics of Governance 6, 1-12, 2005.
[Lead
article] Appendix.
9. Unions: rent extractors or creators
(with V.
Sena). The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 107(1), 103-121,
2005.
2004
8. Strategic Consensus (with J.
Dutta). Journal
of Mathematical Economics 40, 227-245, 2004.
7. Transitional Politics: Emerging
Incentive-based
Instruments in Environmental Regulation. (with J. Dutta) Journal
of
Environmental
Economics
and
Management
47, 458-479. 2004. Appendix.
2003
6. Economic Analysis of Corruption: A Survey.
Economic
Journal 113 (491), F632-652, 2003.
5. Redistribution and deadweight costs: the
role of
political competition. European Journal of Political Economy
19(2),
205-226, 2003. Appendix.
2002
4. Strategic Political Participation and
Redistribution,
Economics and Politics 14(1), 19-40, 2002.
Before
2001
3. Voting and information, Electoral
Studies
19, 349-362, 2000.
2. Political Internalisation of economic
externalities
and environmental policy, Journal of Public Economics 69,
1-16,
1998. [Lead article]
1.
Cooperative
Lobbying
and
Endogenous
Trade
Policy, Public
Choice 93, 455-475, 1997.
Books and Book Chapters
5. Corruption
and
Sustainable
Development. In “International Handbook on the
Economics of Corruption, Volume 2,” Susan Rose-Ackerman and Tina
Søreide, eds., 2011 (Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar).
4.
A Theory of the Corrupt Keynesian
(with J. Dutta). In B. Dutta, T. Ray and E Somanathan, New
and Enduring
Themes in Development Economics (Statistical Science and
Interdisciplinary
Research vol 5, Indian Statistical Institute), World Scientific,
London, 2009.
(Older version in
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0861).
3. Unions
and collective bargaining. Economic Effects in a Global Environment.
2002,
Washington D.C.: The World Bank (with Z. Tzannatos).
2. Public Pensions. (with A. Berry, and H.
Low).
Forthcoming in Cambridge Essays in Economics, 2008.
1.
Political Internalization of economic externalities and environmental
policy,
Journal of Public Economics 69, 1-16, 1998. Reprinted in "The Political
Economy of Environmental Regulation" edited by Robert N. Stavins,
Albert
Pratt, (THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF CRITICAL WRITINGS IN ECONOMICS),
Elsevier,
2004.
Other
publications
Makrookonomische
effekte gewerkschaflicher organisierung und kollektive verhandlungen
(with Z.
Tsannatos). Die Duetsche Bibliothek, GEG-Schrifenreiche 156,
Wohnbau-Forderung
und Bauwirtschaft.
Book
Reviews
3. Walter Hettich and Stanley L. Winer,
Democratic
Choice and Taxation. A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (CUP,
1999), in European
Journal of Political Economy 17, 203-206, 2001
2. Tanzi,
Vito and Ludger Schuknecht, Public Spending in the 20th century: a
Global
Perspective, in The Economic Journal 111, F757-F759, 2001.
1. Hillman, A. L., Public
Finance and Public Policy. The Limitations and Responsibilities of
Government,
in European Journal of Political Economy 20, 807-813., 2004.

Working
papers
in
Working
Papers
Series
T
he Golden Hello and Political Transitions (with F. Albornoz, and M.Gassbner) Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
1241, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
From Open to Secret Ballot: Vote Buying and Modernization (with P.S
Jensen) Cambridge
Working Papers in Economics 1221, Faculty
of Economics, University of Cambridge.
Incumbents and Criminals in the Indian National
Legislature (with M.A.Golden and D. Tiwari). Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
1157, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Workers of the
World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in
Europe, 1820-1938, (with P.S. Jensen) Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
1102, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge or CESifo Working Paper Series 3417, CESifo
Group Munich. NEW VERSION 2012. Data Appendix.
Corruption
and
Sustainable
Development. Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
1061.
Fiscal Federalism and
Electoral Accountability, (with Jayasri Dutta)
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
1021, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, or Institut
d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB) in its series Working
Papers number 2010/11 or CESifo Working Paper Series 3022, CESifo
Group Munich.
One cheer for foreign lobbying (with U.
Hwang).
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0860.
An economic theory of
political
institutions: foreign intervention and overseas investments (with
Facundo
Albornoz). Discussion Paper 07-03, Department of Economics, University
of
Birmingham.
Policy myopia. (with
Dutta, J.,
and Loukoianova, E) Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, 0344.
Sharing the climate policy
burden in
the EU (with Sandra Greiner). HWWA discussion paper 176.
On the Political Economy of Green Tax Reforms,
Department
of
Economics,
University
of
Aarhus,
Department
of
Economics,
Working
Papers:
1997-20.

Working Papers
Strategic consensus: performance voting with
electoral uncertainty. (with J. Dutta).
Political Acceptability, Reimbursement and
endogenous
environmental policy

Published in Refereed Journals, by topic
Political
Economy
of
Envionmental
Policy
Rent Seeking
Corruption
The Extention of the Franchise
Union and Collective Bargaining
Political Economy of Trade
Electoral Accountability
Other
Political Economy
of Envionmental Policy
Green
Taxes:
Refunding
Rules
and Lobbying.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 60, 31-43. Supplementary Material. Data.
The Rise of Environmentalism, Pollution Taxes
and
Intra-industry Trade Economics of Governance 6, 1-12, 2005.
[Lead
article] Appendix.
Transitional Politics: Emerging
Incentive-based
Instruments in Environmental Regulation. (with J. Dutta) Journal
of
Environmental
Economics
and
Management
47, 458-479. 2004. Appendix.
Political Internalisation of economic
externalities
and environmental policy, Journal of Public Economics 69,
1-16,
1998. [Lead article]
Rent Seeking
20. Enduring rents (with Arye Hillman). European
Journal
of
Political
Economy
24, 545-53 [Lead article] (Longer version in
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0802).
5. Redistribution and deadweight costs: the
role of
political competition. European Journal of Political Economy
19(2),
205-226, 2003. Appendix.
4. Strategic Political Participation and
Redistribution,
Economics and Politics 14(1), 19-40, 2002.
Corruption
33.
The causes of corruption. CESifo
DICE Report, Journal for
Institutional Comparison 9(2), 15-19, 2011.
24.
Corruption,
Institutions
and
Economic
Development,
Oxford Review of Economic Policy 25: 271-291 (Older version in Cambridge
Working Papers in Economics 0918)
21. Policy compromises: corruption
and
regulation in a democracy (with J. Dutta). Economics and
Politics
20(3), 335-360 (Older version in Cambridge Working Papers in Economics,
0404).
17. Governance Regimes, Corruption and Growth:
Theory and
Evidence (with J. Dutta and V. Sena). Journal of Comparative
Economics
36, 195-220. (Older version in Cambridge Working Papers in
Economics,
0540).
6. Economic Analysis of Corruption: A Survey.
Economic
Journal 113 (491), F632-652, 2003.
The Extention of the Franchise
32. Political
Competition,
Participation
and
Public
Finance
in
20th
Century
Latin
America
(with Dalibor S. Eterovic). European
Journal of Political Economy 27(1), 181-200.
26. The Retrenchment hypothesis and the
extension of the franchise in England and Wales (with J.
Dutta and M.
Daunton). The Economic Journal
120, 990-1020. (Older version in
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0818). Technical Appendix. Data:
read me . Data Set.
23. The Taxman Tools Up: An Event History Study
of the
Introduction of the Personal Income Tax, 1815-1938 (with Peter S
Jensen). Journal
of Public Economics 93, 160-175. (Older version in Cambridge
Working Papers
in Economics 0766).
22. Tax Structure, Size of Government and the
Extension
of the Voting Franchise in Western Europe, 1860-1938 (with Peter S
Jensen).
International Tax and Public Finance 16, 160-175. Robustness Checks. Tax Return from
1887: page 1, page
2, page 3, page 4, page
5. (Older version in Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
0715).
16. Female voting power: the
contribution of
women's suffrage to the growth of social spending in Western Europe
(1869-1960)
(with Bianca Dallal). Public Choice 134 (3-4), 391-417.
11.
Democracy comes to Europe: franchise expansion and fiscal outcomes
1830-1938. (with
Dutta, J., and Loukoianova, E). European Economic Review 50( 2),
February 2006, 249-283.
Union and Collective Bargaining
19. Trade unions, collective
bargaining and
macroeconomic performance: a review (with Z. Tzannatos). Industrial
Relations
Journal
39(4), 258-295. [Lead article]
18. Internalization of Cross National
Externalities
Through International Lobbying: The Case of Labour Stanstards (with
Uk
Hwang). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 164,
509-533.
Extra appendix.
14.
Unions and microeconomic performance: A look at what matters for hard
core economists
(employers) (with Z. Tzannatos) International Labour Review 145,
257-278.
[Lead
acticle]
9. Unions: rent extractors or creators
(with V.
Sena). The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 107(1), 103-121,
2005.
Political Economy of Trade
27. Do Autocratic States Trade
Less?
(with M. Gassebner). The World Bank Economic Review 24 (1): 38-76.
1.
Cooperative
Lobbying
and
Endogenous
Trade
Policy, Public
Choice 93, 455-475, 1997.
Electoral Accountability
25. Strategic Consensus and Heterogenous Voters:
Provison
of Public Goods with Random Voter Turnout (with J. Dutta). Public
Finance
and
Management 9(2). (Older version in Cambridge Working Papers in
Economics 0843).
15. Policy myopia and economic growth
(with J.
Dutta). European Journal of Political Economy 23, 734-753.
12. Capital taxation and electoral
accountability (with F. Magris). European Journal of Political
Economy 22, Issue 2, 2006, 277-291
.
8. Strategic Consensus (with J.
Dutta). Journal
of Mathematical Economics 40, 227-245, 2004.
3. Voting and information, Electoral
Studies
19, 349-362, 2000.
Other
13. A power law distribution for tenure
lengths of
sports managers (with B. Leong, D. Sgroi and W.C. Saslaw). Physica
A
370,
2006, 697-703.
29.
Political Regimes and Foreign
Intervention (with
Facundo Albornoz). Journal of Development
Economics
94, 192-201 (also in Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 09). Online Appendix A and B.
31. Critical Decisions and
Constitutional rules (with
F. Giovannoni). Social
Choice and Welfare 37 (2), 219-268 .
30. Election Results and
Opportunistic Policies: A New Test of the Rational Political Business
Cycle
Model (with Francisco José Veiga and Linda Gonçalves Veiga). Public
Choice 148 (1-2), 21-44. (Older version in Working
Paper 24/2007, Universidade
do
Minho
and
NIPE
and in Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0935).