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Corruption and Voter Turnout: Evidence from the US States

Public Finance Review (2012)

William F. Shughart, Monica Escaleras and Peter T. Calcagno

The literature on voter turnout focuses on the determinants of the electorate’s vote supply. There is growing recognition, however, that ...

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The USA Patriot Act’s Differential Impact on Large and ...

Journal of Banking Regulation (2012)

William F. Shughart and Burak Dolar

The anti-money laundering (AML) provisions of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 significantly expanded the private sector's role in disrupting ...

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What Should Government Do? Problems of Social Cost, Externalities and ...

Public Choice (2012)

William F. Shughart and Michael Reksulak

Public Choice as a field introduced the framework for a methodical economic analysis of political markets. The output of these ...

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Disaster Relief as Bad Public Policy

The Independent Review (2011)

William F. Shughart

Only 25 percent of the respondents to a survey conducted in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina identified government as their most ...

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Enforcement of the USA Patriot Act’s Anti-Money Laundering Provisions ...

Global Finance Journal (2011)

William F. Shughart

In this paper, we test whether or not banking regulators have followed a risk-based approach in the enforcement of the ...

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Of Rebates and Drawbacks: The Standard Oil (N.J.) Company ...

Review of Industrial Organization (2011)

William F. Shughart and Michael Reksulak

Standard Oil formed the South Improvement Company in the fall of 1871, supposedly to negotiate “secret” discounts on published railroad ...

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The New Deal and Modern Memory

Southern Economic Journal (2011)

William F. Shughart

The “Great Recession,” which began at year‐end 2007, was precipitated by plunging real estate values, followed by borrower defaults and ...

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On Ethnic Conflict and the Origins of Transnational Terrorism

Defence and Peace Economics (2010)

William F. Shughart and Atin Basuchoudhary

Using the ITERATE dataset, we explore the origins of transnational terrorist activity, from 1982 through 1997, in 118 countries. We ...

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Public Choice Theory and Antitrust Policy

Public Choice (2010)

William F. Shughart and Fred S. McChesney

We survey the pioneering contributions of Robert Tollison to the theory and practice of antitrust law enforcement. Inspired by his ...

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The Consequences of the US DOJ’s Antitrust Activities: A ...

Public Choice (2010)

William F. Shughart and Andrew T. Young

Do the antitrust law enforcement activities of the US Department of Justice act as exogenous “technology shocks” or as “markup ...

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And the Beat Goes On: Voting on the Form of ...

Kyklos (2009)

William F. Shughart, Gokhan R. Karahan and R. Morris Coats

‘Operation Pretense,’ an FBI sting operation conducted in Mississippi during the 1980s, uncovered widespread corruption among the state's county supervisors. ...

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The Political Economy of Constitutional Choice: A Study of the ...

Economics Working Papers (2008)

Mwangi S. Kimenyi and William F. Shughart

Recent studies of the linkages between the wealth of nations and the institutions of governance suggest that concentrating political power ...

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Innovation and the Opportunity Cost of Monopoly

Managerial and Decision Economics (2008)

William F. Shughart, Michael Reksulak and Robert D. Tollison

Innovation enables monopolists to lower their costs, expand their outputs, and reduce their prices. It is conventional to conclude that ...

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Taxonomy: Racism versus Fiscal Conservatism in Voting on Segregationist Provisions ...

Constitutional Political Economy (2008)

William F. Shughart and Michael Reksulak

On Election Day 2004, a razor-thin majority of Alabama’s voters rejected a proposed amendment to remove overtly segregationist language from ...

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Delivered Pricing in Theory and Policy Practice

Antitrust Bulletin (2007)

William F. Shughart and Fred S. McChesney

In the standard textbook theory of spatial pricing, firms typically charge prices f.o.b. ("free on board"). Under such a policy, ...

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Flags of Our Fathers: Voting on Confederate Symbols in the ...

Public Choice (2007)

William F. Shughart, Gokhan R. Karahan and Michael Reksulak

Participants in a special election held in the State of Georgia on 2 March 2004 voted overwhelmingly in favor of ...

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The Wealth Effects of the USA Patriot Act: Evidence from ...

Journal of Money Laundering Control (2007)

William F. Shughart and Burak Dolar

Title III of the USA Patriot Act obligated the private sector to take a more active role in deterring money ...

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A Theory of Commodity Bundling in Final Product Markets: Professor ...

International Review of Law and Economics (2006)

William F. Shughart, Robert E. McCormick and Robert D. Tollison

This article advances a theory of commodity bundling as an alternative to forward integration in household production. We argue, in ...

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An Analytical History of Terrorism, 1945‚Äì2000

Public Choice (2006)

William F. Shughart

This paper traces the history of modern terrorism from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of ...

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Corrupt Political Jurisdictions and Voter Participation

Public Choice (2006)

William F. Shughart, Gokhan R. Karahan and R. Morris Coats

An FBI investigation of county purchasing activities in the mid 1980s resulted in the conviction of 55 of Mississippi's 410 ...

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Katrinanomics: The Politics and Economics of Disaster Relief

Public Choice (2006)

William F. Shughart

Hurricane Katrina revealed massive governmental failure at the local, state and federal levels. This commentary brings the modern theory of ...

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No Pretense to Honesty: County Government Corruption in Mississippi

Economics and Governance (2006)

William F. Shughart, Gokhan R. Karahan and Laura Razzolini

This paper explores the determinants of governmental corruption exploiting a unique dataset generated by ‚ÄúOperation Pretense‚Äù, an FBI investigation of ...

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Smoke and Mirrors: The Political Economy of the Tobacco Settlements

Public Finance Review (2006)

William F. Shughart and Taylor P. Stevenson

The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) resolved litigation between forty-six states and the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers. In total, the ...

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Public Choice in the New Century

Public Choice (2005)

William F. Shughart and Robert D. Tollison

This special issue of Public Choice was designed to afford leading scholars the opportunity to summarize the current state of ...

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The Unfinished Business of Public Choice

Public Choice (2005)

William F. Shughart and Robert D. Tollison

Over the past fifty years, the public choice research program has generated important insights into collective decision-making processes, especially as ...

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