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• Aid, economic freedom, and growth 

  Foreign aid has often been intended by donors to entice recipient nations into policy and institutional reforms favorable to private sector...

  Contemporary Economic Policy, 01/01/09 by Jac C. Heckelman · More from publication

• Explaining the rain: The Rise and Decline of Nations after 25 years 

  In the quarter century since the publication of Mancur Olson's Rise and Decline of Nations, a large literature has evolved testing the central...

  Southern Economic Journal, 07/01/07 by Jac C. Heckelman · More from publication

• Proxies for economic freedom: a critique of the Hanson critique 

  Economic freedom indicators have become quite popular recently as a useful tool to quantify the relationship between a country's institutions and...

  Southern Economic Journal, 10/01/05 by Jac C. Heckelman · More from publication

• The secret ballot protects the incumbency advantage 

  "No man has ever placed his money corruptly without satisfying "No man has ever placed his money corruptly without satisfying himself that...

  Independent Review, 01/01/04 by Jac C. Heckelman · More from publication

• And a hockey game broke out: crime and punishment in the NHL 

  We apply the economic theory of crime to the National Hockey League. We analyze a natural experiment in which games during the 1999-2000 season had...

  Economic Inquiry, 10/01/03 by Jac C. Heckelman · More from publication

• Now more than ever, your vote doesn't matter: a reconsideration 

  In the spring 2002 issue of The Independent Review, Cecil E. Bohanon and T. Norman Van Cott properly dispel the notion that every person's vote...

  Independent Review, 03/22/03 by Jac C. Heckelman · More from publication

• Testing rational partisan theory when elections are endogenous events: Some empirical evidence from the United Kingdom 

  Rational partisan theory predicts macroeconomic fluctuations are triggered by possible changes in government policies due to elections. Empirical...

  Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting, 10/01/99 by Heckelman, Jac C · More from publication

• Political business cycles and endogenous elections 

  A research on political business cycles (PBCs) in Japan and the UK was undertaken to prove that elections are timed by incumbent government...

  Southern Economic Journal, 04/01/98 by Jac C. Heckelman · More from publication