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Multipolarity in the 21st Century : challenges and opportunities in political economy : a review of the 18th Forum of World Association for Political Economy

Fu, Hao; Aihemaiti, Guzailinuer - 2026

The 18th Annual Forum of the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE), hosted by WAPE, and co-organized by Turkish-Chinese Business Development and Friendship Association and Yeditepe University, was successfully held in Istanbul, Türkiye, on August 6-8, 2025, with the theme...

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Frank Ramsey's politics

Marouzi, Soroush - 2025

Frank Ramsey is often portrayed as a British thinker immersed in theoretical problems in philosophy, mathematics, and economics. However, as Cheryl Misak (2020) shows, he was also preoccupied with political problems and concerned with practical efforts to improve the world. This chapter focuses...

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Frank Ramsey's politics

Marouzi, Soroush - 2025

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Unintended institutionalization : how the politics of symbolic fiscal practices shapes economic policy

Labarca, José Tomás - 2025

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The rhetoric of praise, blame, and oracle in the moral persuasion of political economy

Petersen, Jerry - 2025

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Thoughts on the political economy of international trade

Lewkowicz, Jacek - 2024

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Thoughts on the political economy of international trade

Lewkowicz, Jacek - 2024

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Authoritarian collaboration and repression in the digital age: balancing foreign direct investment and control in internet infrastructure

Garbe, Lisa; Maerz, Seraphine F.; Freyburg, Tina - 2026

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Authoritarian collaboration and repression in the digital age: balancing foreign direct investment and control in internet infrastructure

Garbe, Lisa; Maerz, Seraphine F.; Freyburg, Tina - 2025

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Poverty relief policies in pre- and post-transformation Poland : a Polanyian perspective

Lüpnitz, Jonas - 2026

This working paper investigates the tension between market forces and welfare policies by applying Karl Polanyi's "double movement" study to pre- and posttransformation Poland. The analysis aims at providing a comprehensive perspective on how poverty relief policies impacted and have been...

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Poverty relief policies in pre- and post-transformation Poland: A Polanyian perspective

Lüpnitz, Jonas - 2026

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On the (mis)use of composite indices : with applications in political economy

Millimet, Daniel L.; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2026

Empirical researchers often replace latent constructs with composite indices, treating this as a neutral data-processing step. We prove this is a consequential identification choice. Our (near) impossibility theorem demonstrates that no linear index can guarantee consistent estimates of all...

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Elections and political polarisation : challenges for environmental agreements

Spycher, Sarah - 2026 - This version: May 2026

This paper examines how domestic elections and political polarisation shape international environmental agreements. Using a four-stage game to model a bilateral treaty, I analyse how incumbents strategically balance policy preferences with re-election prospects. Results reveal asymmetric...

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Elections and political polarisation: Challenges for environmental agreements

Spycher, Sarah - 2024

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Elections and political polarisation : challenges for environmental agreements

Spycher, Sarah - 2024 - This version: November 2024

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From Adorno to 50 Cent : financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century

Kullick, Paul Niklas; Petry, Johannes - 2026

Does music sound all the same nowadays? This article revives the Frankfurt School's critique of the culture industry by recontextualizing it within contemporary financialized platform capitalism. We argue that Digital Streaming Platforms (DSPs) like Spotify showcase the proliferation of the...

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Enlightenment ideals and belief in progress in the run-up to the industrial revolution : a textual analysis

Almelhem, Ali; Iyigun, Murat; Kennedy, Austin; Rubin, Jared - 2026

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Enlightenment ideals and belief in progress in the run-up to the Industrial Revolution : a textual analysis

Almelhem, Ali; Iyigun, Murat; Kennedy, Austin; Rubin, Jared - 2023

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Enlightenment ideals and belief in progress in the run-up to the Industrial Revolution : a textual analysis

Almelhem, Ali; Iyigun, Murat; Kennedy, Austin; Rubin, Jared - 2023

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Systematic corruption

Steel, Reilly - 2026

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Do law professionals lack economic knowledge?

Hassid, Joseph; Maniatis, George; Polemis, Michael - 2026

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Institutions and climate change

Campos, Nauro; Ginefra, Flavia; Martelli, Angelo; … - 2026

This paper reviews research across economics, political economy, political science, and public policy to investigate how institutions shape the adoption, implementation, and durability of climate policies. We examine how formal institutions (i) coordinate implementation capacity, (ii) anchor...

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Institutions and climate change

Campos, Nauro; Ginefra, Flavia; Martelli, Angelo; … - 2026

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German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala

Noé, Ricardo R. - 2026

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Forschungsbericht ; 2025

2026

Das Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Fakultät Staatswissenschaften) legt hiermit seinen zwanzigsten eigenständigen Forschungsbericht vor. Wir möchten mit unserem Bericht alle Interessenten an unserer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit in kompakter Form über die...

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Ten years Data Observer - a service for empirical researchers in economics : updated second edition of RatSWD Working Paper 279 : originally published in the Working Paper Series in Economics (University of Lüneburg)

Wagner, Joachim - 2026

Since 2016 the Journal of Economics and Statistics publishes the Data Observer section with descriptions of data that can be used in empirical research in economics (and in the social sciences in general), This note gives a short overview of the contributions published in the first ten years.

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Democratization, personal wealth of politicians and voting behavior

Machielsen, Bas - 2026

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The delayed acceptance of female research in economics

Bruns, Stephan B.; Doucouliagos, Anthony; Doucouliagos, … - 2026

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The delayed acceptance of female research in economics

Bruns, Stephan B.; Doucouliagos, Anthony; Doucouliagos, … - 2025

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Grounding the middle-income trap in a world of global value chains

Bril Mascarenhas, Tómas; Freytes, Carlos; Schneider, … - 2026

This introduction grounds the middle-income (MI) trap by looking at the empirical realities of firms, sectors, national, and subnational institutions embedded in global value chains (GVCs). While MI-trap scholarship has shed light on macro-structural constraints, it often overlooks international...

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Economic implications for Europe of a potential reintegration of Iran into the world economy

Ghodsi, Mahdi; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kariem, Heider; … - 2026

How would fundamental political change in Iran, leading to a democratic system with a free and rulesbased economic order, affect Germany and the EU economically? In the event of change, sanctions could be scaled back, allowing Iran to rejoin the global economy. This study quantifies the economic...

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Do parties matter for economic outcomes? : a replication study of Pettersson-Lidbom (Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008)

Korpi, Martin; Lakomaa, Erik - 2026

In an important and much cited study, Pettersson-Lidbom (2008) identifies significant left-wing majority coalition effects on economic outcomes for Swedish local governments, 1974-1994. We first replicate the original study and then extend the original research by applying Pettersson-Lidbom's...

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What drives tax policy choices?

Alm, James - 2026

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Corporate financialization in the age of asset managers : emerging traits of financial imperialism

Bua, Krystian; Dosi, Giovanni; Lapabitsas, Kōstas; … - 2026

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Computational reproducibility and robustness of empirical economics and political science research between 2022 and 2023

Brodeur, Abel - 2026

This systematic and large-scale reproduction effort tests the reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science. We reproduced original analyses and conducted robustness checks of 110 articles recently published in leading economics and political science journals (all of which...

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Bayesian time-series analysis on retreating economic freedom : is there a democratic crisis of liberalism?

Herzog, Bodo - 2026

This study examines the dynamics of economic freedom in nine advanced democracies in comparison to China over the 1970-2022 period. Using data from the Fraser Institute and the Manifesto Project Database, we apply a Bayesian time-series methodology to identify three key patterns. First, economic...

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Reforming fossil fuel subsidies with citizens' approval : the case of Colombia

Bez, Charlotte Sophia; Bonilla, Jorge A.; Castañeda … - 2026

ubsidizing fossil fuel consumption is at odds with climate change mitigation and a heavy burden on public budgets. Yet, efforts to reform such subsidies often face strong public opposition. We examine whether informing citizens about the effects of fossil fuel subsidy reform (FFSR) and...

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Economic security and the transformation of European Union economic governance : industrial policy, competitiveness, and strategic resilience

Ivančík, Radoslav; Dušek, Jiří - 2026

This article analyses the rise of economic security as a new organising principle of European Union economic governance and examines the extent to which this concept is transforming the traditional model of European industrial and market policy. In the context of escalating geopolitical rivalry,...

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A technical and political analysis of fiscal space and revenue resources of universal health coverage in Thailand

Theepakorn Jithitikulchai - 2026

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Revealed preference for redistribution and the role of government

Rodemeier, Matthias; Sun, Gregory - 2026

We study how Americans trade off the welfare of the poor versus the rich using incentivized transfer experiments. Combining this with estimates of the Elasticity of Taxable Income, we quantify optimal income tax rates in the US. Revealed preferences show strong concern for the poor across the...

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Taxes, growth, and equity : the illusions of fiscal policy

Hira, Anil; Swartz, Tim; Cao, Jiguo - 2026

For over a century now, one of the central debates of economic policy has been around fiscal policy. Taxation and government spending have been a feature of most political campaigns, with one (more vocal) side claiming that taxation chokes economic growth and benefits special interests, while...

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Examining economic theory's influence on criminology : imperialism and disciplinary boundaries

Sigrist, Felipe Coelho; Marin, Solange Regina - 2026

The paper aims to investigate the imperialistic status of Economic Theory of Crime. Among economists, ETC is often regarded as a successful case of imperialism toward criminology, but criminologists do not share this perception. Through a documental analysis and literature review, we select two...

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Political feasibility of French income tax reforms 2002-2019

Boyer, Pierre C.; Takhedmit, Adel; Vanborre, Paul - 2026

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The geoeconomics of contract enforcement

Paltseva, Elena; Toews, Gerhard; Troya-Martinez, Marta - 2026

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Unpacking the political economy of fertilizer subsidy reforms

Chugh, Aditi; Resnick, Danielle - 2026

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Following the crowd : literature support and the capabilities of autonomous research agents

Zampa, Michele - 2026

Machine-learning models often perform poorly when asked to generalize beyond the support of the training distribution. This paper asks whether the same limitation shapes the research capabilities of autonomous large language model (LLM) agents: do they perform better when generating papers that...

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Private interest in the public good : cholera and the origins of sanitary reform

Gallardo-Albarrán, Daniel; Kappner, Kalle - 2026 - This version: May 19, 2026

European countries paved the way for modern economic growth in the 19th century with large-scale reforms facilitating human capital accumulation. The literature has looked at the role of elites in broad education investments, but less attention has been devoted to reforms promoting workers'...

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Green structural transformation in South Africa

Robb, Nishal; Robbins, Glen; Taylor, Julia; Valodia, Imraan - 2026

South Africa faces complex tensions between its aspirations to achieve green structural transformation, its ambitious energy transition commitments, and the structural economic conditions that constrain their realization. We argue that emissions reductions achieved to date have been driven at...

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The costs of denial

Devarajan, Shantayanan - 2026

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Deregulation : from theory to practice

Sturzenegger, Federico - 2026

This paper links microeconomic theory with the political economy of regulation. We explain why modern economies tend to become persistently over-regulated and we outline a practical strategy for deregulation. We argue that regulations are not the works of a benevolent central planner but rather...

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Politics and public banks : BNDES loans to local governments in Brazil

Pinto, Guilherme Paiva; Bugarin, Mauricio Soares; … - 2026

This study advances a quantitative political economy analysis of development banking within federative systems, focusing on Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES). Moving beyond traditional fiscal transfer models, we investigate the mechanisms through which federal...

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Colombia's missing fiscal pact : the political and cultural foundations of weak taxation

Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2026

This paper argues that Colombia's taxation problems reflect a deeper political economy equilibrium shaped by extractive institutions, extreme inequality, and cultural norms that favor individual solutions over collective ones. Historical legacies produced a weak and often distrusted state, which...

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Colombia's missing fiscal pact: the political and cultural foundations of weak taxation

Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2025

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District heterogeneity, legislative bargaining, and trade policy

Gawande, Kishore; Pinto, Pablo M.; Pinto, Santiago M. - 2026

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Attitudes towards reducing fossil fuel subsidies : evidence across 12 middle-income countries

Hoy, Christopher; Kim, Yeon Soo; Nguyen, Minh Cong; … - 2026

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Pluralising the economic knowledge of politics : evidence from a German case study

Bäuerle, Lukas; Reinke, Rouven - 2026

Economic expertise in German policymaking has long been shaped by technocratic, market-liberal advisory bodies closely connected to mainstream economics. Over the past decade, however, an alternative knowledge ecosystem - the New Economy Space (NES) - has emerged, promoting heterodox, pluralist,...

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On the free allocation of emission rights under endogenous lobby formation

Lappi, Pauli - 2026

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Do Politicians’ Incentives to Meet and Beat Expectations in Economic Performance Influence Corporate Environmental Performance?

Liu, Bailu; Ho, Tuan; Huang, Haijie; Lee, Edward - 2026

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Hyper-commodified housing products and the triple crisis: regulating the symptom or rethinking housing provision?

Uyttebrouck, Constance; Paccoud, Antoine - 2026

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The third way in empirical economics research

Green, David A. - 2026

There is a third way of doing empirical work in economics that combines the benefits of the two commonly described approaches (quasi-experimental (QE) and structural). It uses an economic model to provide interpretability and help in deciding on controls and the nature and solutions to...

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Credibility of science : relevance of large-team science

Waldauf, Matthias; Dreber, Anna; Huber, Jürgen; … - 2026

In recent years, open science and metascience have made advances by reducing publication bias, applying largeteam science, and addressing reproducibility. Although both approaches are increasingly being incorporated into many scientific fields, it is unclear to what extent they are appreciated...

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