• Climbing the ranks: incumbency effects in party-list systems 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Røhr, Helene Lie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Incumbents tend to have a solid electoral advantage in candidate-centered electoral settings. Do similar incumbency effects exist in more party-centered environments? We estimate incumbency effects in an open-list proportional ...
    • Dutch disease dynamics reconsidered 

      Bjørnland, Hilde C; Thorsrud, Leif Anders; Torvik, Ragnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      In this paper we develop the first model to incorporate the dynamic productivity consequences of both the spending effect and the resource movement effect of oil abundance. We show that doing so dramatically alters the ...
    • Political Donations and the Allocation of Public Procurement Contracts 

      Titl, Vitezslav; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We study whether and when firms’ donations to political parties induce favouritism in public procurement allocations. Our analysis builds on a unique, comprehensive dataset covering all public procurement contracts and all ...