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Autor:
William B. Hankins
Publikováno v:
Southern Economic Journal. 88:1599-1625
I use matching methods on a panel of U.S. states over the period 1960 -- 2008 to test whether the adoption of a supermajority requirement impacts state-level expenditures and tax revenue. I find evidence that the growth rate of welfare expenditures p
Autor:
William B. Hankins
Publikováno v:
State Politics & Policy Quarterly. 20:3-22
I estimate the impact of Nebraska's 1937 switch from a bicameral to a unicameral legislature on state-level government expenditures. Using the synthetic control method I create a counterfactual Nebraska from a weighted average of other potential cont
Autor:
William B. Hankins, Gary A. Hoover
Publikováno v:
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice. 34:101-126
Using a panel of US states over the period 1985–2010, we examine how Democratic governors affect economic freedom compared to Republican governors. Economic freedom is measured using the Economic Freedom of North America Index. Given the emphasis t
Publikováno v:
Journal of Macroeconomics. 73:103426
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Using U.S. data over the period 1961 - 2000 we estimate a structural factor-augmented vector autoregressive model and find that a one standard deviation shock to macroeconomic uncertainty generates declines in state-level total factor productivity (T
Publikováno v:
Economics of Governance. 18:351-389
Research on the distribution of federal expenditures has provided mixed evidence showing that states with more legislators who belong to the president’s party and states with more legislators in the chamber majority tend to receive a larger allocat
Publikováno v:
Economics Letters. 138:64-67
This paper highlights the international transmission of political uncertainty originated from a US partisan conflict shock, a newly identified shock that transmits a type of uncertainty beyond the economic policy uncertainty spillovers identified by
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Using a quarterly panel of U.S. corporations over the period 1985 – 2014 we show that corporate managers respond to political uncertainty and economic policy uncertainty shocks in different ways. We proxy for political uncertainty using the Partisa
Autor:
William B. Hankins
Publikováno v:
Social Science Quarterly. 96:1059-1070
Objective I examine the relationship between legislature size and several components of government spending using a methodology that allows me to estimate how legislature size influences the fiscal response to shocks that are common to all states. Me
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Using data from the Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration, we examine whether political ideology and political alignment affect how much a state receives in per-capita highway funding. For the period 1994 - 2008, we find evi