Data

Survey of daily consumer expenditures in Armenia, 2001-2016 (N=2,734,856): Data & code, readme.

Reference: Aidt, Toke, Zareh Asatryan, Lusine Badalyan and Friedrich Heinemann. 2019. Vote Buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual? Review of Economics and Statistics 102(3), 409-425.

Monthly monetary aggregates and elections in around 120 countries, 1975-2015 (N=35,310): Data & code, readme.

Reference: Aidt, Toke, Zareh Asatryan, Lusine Badalyan and Friedrich Heinemann. 2019. Vote Buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual? Review of Economics and Statistics 102(3), 409-425.

European Investment Bank loans in 291 European regions, 1959-2015 (N=16,587): Data & code.

Reference: Asatryan, Zareh and Annika Havlik. 2020. Review of International Organizations 15, 707-740.

Local government public finances, direct democratic activity and socio-political characteristics of German towns, 2002-2014 (N=155,676): Data & code, summary.

Reference: Asatryan, Zareh, Annika Havlik and Frank Streif. 2017. Vetoing and Inaugurating Policy Like Others Do: Evidence on Spatial Interactions in Voter Initiatives. Public Choice 172 (3-4), 525–544.

Reform-level data on micro-economic reforms (N=4,200) in 28 EU countries, 2000-2013: Data & code.

Reference: Asatryan, Zareh, Friedrich Heinemann and Hans Pitlik. 2017. Reforming the Public Administration: The Role of Crisis and the Power of Bureaucracy. European Journal of Political Economy 48, 128-143.

Cover: Untitled, by Cy Twombly, 1970