Vote buying with intergovernmental grants (my paper published in Public Choice)
When I started working in the academia a few years back, my friend and co-author Josip Glaurdić asked me which journal would I like to be published in the most? Without hesitation I said: Public Choice ! Well, that goal has now been accomplished. I have a publication in one of my all time favorite political economy journals! You can read the paper on this link , it's been published online first. Next big goal: Quarterly Journal of Economics (I will also accept American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy or American Political Science Review). Our paper is on the political bias in the allocation of intergovernmental grants in Croatia. Here's the abstract: "Instead of alleviating fiscal inequalities, intergovernmental grants are often used to fulfill the grantors’ political goals. This study uses a unique panel dataset on more than 500 Croatian municipalities over a 12-year period to uncover the extent to which grant distribution is biased owing to ...