"This primer contains an extended survey of the current state of the art of constitutional political economy. It summarizes the major research questions, discusses the methods and tools used by scholars working in this field, and presents the results regarding both the effects of constitutional...

Constitutional political economy has emerged as an indispensable part of political economy. This book offers a concise survey of the questions, methods, and empirical findings central to this topic. What effects - if any - do constitutions have within autocracies? Can small electoral districts...

This paper explores the idea that institutional details matter and that attempts to estimate the economic effects of federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and...