Towards the Greater Good? EU Commissioners’ Nationality and Budget Allocation in the European Union
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- Kai Gehring & Stephan A. Schneider, 2018. "Towards the Greater Good? EU Commissioners' Nationality and Budget Allocation in the European Union," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 10(1), pages 214-239, February.
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Keywords
Fiscal Federalism; Political Economy; Budget Allocation; European Union; EU Commission; EU Commissioners; National Origin;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- F55 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - International Institutional Arrangements
- H61 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Budget; Budget Systems
- H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
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