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  1. Can new constitutions tighten the reins? The effect of constitutional change on constitutional compliance

    Article • Public Choice, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  2. Covid and the constitution: unlawful states of emergency during the pandemic

    Article • European Journal of Law and Economics, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  3. International Investment Law and Plurilateralism – Concept, Prospects and Limitations

    Article • The Journal of World Investment & Trade, August 2025, De Gruyter

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  4. Measuring constitutional loyalty

    Article • Public Choice, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  5. How do citizens define and value the rule of law? A conjoint experiment in Germany and Poland

    Article • Journal of European Public Policy, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  6. Determinants of social norms II – religion and family as mediators

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, January 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  7. Determinants of social norms I – the role of geography

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, December 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  8. Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, September 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  9. Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?

    Article • European Journal of Political Economy, September 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  10. No man is an island: trust, trustworthiness, and social networks among refugees in Germany

    Article • Journal of Population Economics, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  11. The comparative constitutional compliance database

    Article • The Review of International Organizations, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  12. Zur Diagnose demokratischer Regression

    Article • January 2023, Nomos Verlag

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  13. Conceptualization and Measurement of Institutions

    Article • December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  14. A Sense of No Future in an Uncertain Present: Altruism and Risk-Seeking among Syrian Refugees in Jordan

    Article • Journal of Refugee Studies, September 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  15. Terrorism and emergency constitutions in the Muslim world

    Article • Journal of Peace Research, August 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  16. This time is different?—on the use of emergency measures during the corona pandemic

    Article • European Journal of Law and Economics, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  17. Emergencies: on the misuse of government powers

    Article • Public Choice, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  18. Mind the gap: Analyzing the divergence between constitutional text and constitutional reality

    Article • International Journal of Constitutional Law, June 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  19. Contracting for Catastrophe:Legitimizing Emergency Constitutions by Drawing on Social Contract Theory

    Article • Res Publica, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  20. Testing Todd: family types and development

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, March 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  21. Militant constitutionalism: a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely?

    Article • Public Choice, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  22. Traditional law in times of the nation state: why is it so prevalent?

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, March 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  23. Is constitutionalized media freedom only window dressing? Evidence from terrorist attacks

    Article • Public Choice, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  24. When Syria was in Egypt’s land: Egyptians cooperate with Syrians, but less with each other

    Article • Public Choice, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  25. When Does Terror Induce a State of Emergency? And What Are the Effects?

    Article • Journal of Conflict Resolution, August 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  26. Soziale Marktwirtschaft im Grundgesetz? Eine gefährliche Verlockung

    Article • ORDO, March 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  27. The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, Volume 1

    Article • February 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  28. The independence of international courts – making reputation work?

    Article • Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  29. How to measure informal institutions

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, June 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  30. Banking crises and human rights

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  31. The Economics of Green Constitutions

    Article • Asian Journal of Law and Economics, December 2016, De Gruyter

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  32. Tullock on the common law: a loose-cannon iconoclast in action?

    Article • Constitutional Political Economy, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  33. On the wrong side of the law – Causes and consequences of a corrupt judiciary

    Article • International Review of Law and Economics, August 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  34. Does direct democracy make for better citizens? A cautionary warning based on cross-country evidence

    Article • Constitutional Political Economy, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  35. Economic growth and judicial independence, a dozen years on: Cross-country evidence using an updated Set of indicators

    Article • European Journal of Political Economy, June 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  36. The rule of law and constitutionalism in Muslim countries

    Article • Public Choice, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  37. Membership has its Privileges – The Effect of Membership in International Organizations on FDI

    Article • World Development, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  38. Identifying the determinants of aggregate judicial performance: taxpayers’ money well spent?

    Article • European Journal of Law and Economics, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  39. Analyzing preliminary references as the powerbase of the European Court of Justice

    Article • European Journal of Law and Economics, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  40. Mapping Constitutionally Safeguarded Judicial Independence—A Global Survey

    Article • Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, January 2014, Wiley

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  41. Empirical Legal Analysis

    Article • December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  42. Constitutional verbosity and social trust

    Article • Public Choice, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  43. Arbitration is No Substitute for State Courts

    Article • The Journal of Development Studies, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  44. Endogenous constitutions: Politics and politicians matter, economic outcomes don’t

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, April 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  45. The economic effects of constitutional budget institutions

    Article • European Journal of Political Economy, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  46. The Relevance of Judicial Procedure for Economic Growth

    Article • CESifo Economic Studies, February 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  47. Turning cheap talk into economic growth: On the relationship between property rights and judicial independence

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  48. Institutional details matter—more economic effects of direct democracy

    Article • Economics of Governance, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  49. How (not) to measure institutions: a reply to Robinson and Shirley

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, October 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  50. The Economics of Informal International Law: An Empirical Assessment

    Article • September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  51. How (Not) to measure institutions

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, July 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  52. How to Measure the Rule of Law

    Article • Kyklos, April 2012, Wiley

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  53. On the optimal number of courts

    Article • International Review of Law and Economics, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  54. The economics of efficiency and the judicial system

    Article • International Review of Law and Economics, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  55. Empirical constitutional economics: Onward and upward?

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, October 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  56. Does membership in international organizations increase governments’ credibility? Testing the effects of delegating powers

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  57. Do individual disclosure rules for parliamentarians improve government effectiveness?

    Article • Economics of Governance, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  58. Does organizational design of supreme audit institutions matter? A cross-country assessment

    Article • European Journal of Political Economy, June 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  59. Federalism and decentralization—a critical survey of frequently used indicators

    Article • Constitutional Political Economy, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  60. The Ripple Effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

    Article • Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, January 2011, Mohr Siebeck

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  61. The economic effects of federalism and decentralization—a cross-country assessment

    Article • Public Choice, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  62. Fiscal Effects of Reforming Local Constitutions

    Article • Urban Studies, November 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  63. Determinants of constitutional change: Why do countries change their form of government?

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, September 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  64. Positive constitutional economics II—a survey of recent developments

    Article • Public Choice, May 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  65. Do Independent Prosecutors Deter Political Corruption? An Empirical Evaluation across Seventy-eight Countries

    Article • American Law and Economics Review, March 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  66. Explaining constitutional garrulity

    Article • International Review of Law and Economics, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  67. The Effects of Competition Policy on Development – Cross-Country Evidence Using Four New Indicators

    Article • The Journal of Development Studies, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  68. The effects of lay participation in courts — A cross-country analysis

    Article • European Journal of Political Economy, September 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  69. The economic effects of direct democracy—a first global assessment

    Article • Public Choice, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  70. Separation of powers: new perspectives and empirical findings—introduction

    Article • Constitutional Political Economy, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  71. The economic effects of constitutions: replicating—and extending—Persson and Tabellini

    Article • Public Choice, December 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  72. Constitutional Political Economy: Analyzing Formal Institutions at the Most Elementary Level

    Article • September 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  73. The economic effects of judicial accountability: cross-country evidence

    Article • European Journal of Law and Economics, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  74. The Economic Effects of Human Rights

    Article • Kyklos, October 2007, Wiley

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  75. Explaining de facto judicial independence

    Article • International Review of Law and Economics, September 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  76. Improving credibility by delegating judicial competence—the case of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

    Article • Journal of Development Economics, March 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  77. Wenn Justitia die Hand aufh�lt ? Ursachen und Folgen korrupter Justizbeh�rden

    Article • Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, January 2007, De Gruyter

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  78. The Violent and the Weak

    Article • American Journal of Economics and Sociology, September 2006, Wiley

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  79. Reforming Federalism German Style

    Article • Intereconomics, July 2006, De Gruyter

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  80. Robust political economy: The case of antitrust

    Article • The Review of Austrian Economics, June 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  81. Do we need a new international financial architecture? Many questions and some preliminary policy advice

    Article • February 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  82. Making European Merger Policy More Predictable

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  83. The Prosecution of Public Figures and the Separation of Powers. Confusion within the Executive Branch – A Conceptual Framework

    Article • Constitutional Political Economy, September 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  84. The Bonds of Democratic Politics – An Economic Perspective

    Article • September 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  85. Economic growth and judicial independence: cross-country evidence using a new set of indicators

    Article • European Journal of Political Economy, September 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  86. On the Delegation of Powers – With Special Emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe

    Article • April 2003, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  87. Toward ever closer union—or ever larger? Or both? Entry to the European Union from the perspective of constitutional economics

    Article • International Review of Law and Economics, September 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  88. Reviews

    Article • Constitutional Political Economy, March 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  89. Traded services in the GATT — What’s all the fuss about?

    Article • Intereconomics, July 1991, De Gruyter

    Professor Stefan Voigt

  90. The Trade Policy Review Mechanism

    Article • Intereconomics, May 1990, De Gruyter

    Professor Stefan Voigt