This paper analyzes the effect the gender of local policymakers on policy outcomes. Analyzing a rich dataset from Brazilian municipalities and using a regression discontinuity design, we find that municipalities ruled by female mayors have better health outcomes, receive more federal...

A textbook on European economic integration. The book presents readers with a brief but comprehensive overview of the processes of European economic integration taking place after the Second World War, with the main aim of presenting them from an economic perspective. This book attempts to...

Transition economics was and still is a topic mostly associated with the post-communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The cause of its emergence as a theory was not purely economic – the spearhead was politics – leading to the collapse of the Eastern Block, to be followed by...

It was in the late 1930s that the Royal Air Force, while experimenting with new radar stations,made the revolutionary discovery that the scientific placing of radar stations was a problem quite distinct from the technological one of making individual stations work reliably. What was even more...

This article analyzes a previously unexplored register of Spanish banks’ marketing material to document changes in the access of large numbers of women to the retail banking sector. In 1949 the Franco dictatorship deployed a Censorship Bureau to control and supervise all retail bank marketing....

Our results reinforce the thesis that the presence of women investors was not only pioneering by developed economies but was rather a reflection of a deeper phenomenon associated with institutions and modernization. We examine the feminization of shareholding employing data from Spanish...

In this paper we apply time series analysis to examine weekly data of Vladimir Putin’s approval and confidence ratings and their dependence on terrorist attacks. We find that minor terrorist attacks with few or no mortal casualties in Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan increase Putin’s...

This paper delves into the vital role of women in economic governance for achieving sustained and equitable growth in Africa. Historically, African women have played significant roles in economic activities and governance structures, particularly in pre-colonial societies, where they were...

Are politicians ideologically rigid, or do officeholders adjust policy strategically for electoral purposes? This paper sheds new light on this longstanding question by studying how U.S. House incumbents alter their roll call voting record prior to elections depending on their challenger’s...

Are politicians ideologically rigid, or do officeholders adjust policy strategically for electoral purposes? This paper sheds new light on this longstanding question by studying how U.S. House incumbents alter their roll call voting record prior to elections depending on their challenger’s...