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Toke Aidt
University Senior Lecturer
Fellow of Jesus College

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Email: toke.aidt@econ.cam.ac.uk
Interests:Political Economics.

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, 509-533Extra 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

The 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, 509-533Extra 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).