Peter Calcagno

College of Charleston - Department of Economics

Professor of Economics

66 George Street

Charleston, SC 29424

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

13

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1,752

TOTAL CITATIONS

7

Scholarly Papers (13)

1.

The Political Economy of State Economic Development Incentives: A Case of Rent Extraction

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 27 Dec 2021
Russell S. Sobel, Gary A. Wagner and Peter Calcagno
The Citadel - School of Business, University of Louisiana at Lafayette and College of Charleston - Department of Economics
Downloads 249 (266,334)
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Economic Development Incentives, Public Choice, Rent Extraction

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Targeted Economic Incentives: An Analysis of State Fiscal Policy and Regulatory Conditions

Mercatus Working Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2018
Peter Calcagno and Frank L Hefner
College of Charleston - Department of Economics and College of Charleston - Department of Economics
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State Economic Incentives, State Taxes, Targeted Incentives, State Economic Development, State Fiscal Policy

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Divided We Vote

Public Choice, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2010
Peter Calcagno and Edward J. Lopez
College of Charleston - Department of Economics and Western Carolina University - College of Business
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divided government, limited government, midterm cycles, split ticket voting, American states

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An Institutional Analysis of Voter Turnout: The Role of Primary Type and the Expressive and Instrumental Voting Hypotheses

Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 94-110, June 2008
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 02 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2011
Peter Calcagno and Christopher Westley
College of Charleston - Department of Economics and Florida Gulf Coast University
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voting, median voter, primaries, shirking, expressive voting, instrumental voting

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Primary Election Systems and Candidate Deviation

Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 365-376, Summer 2004
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Christopher Westley, Peter Calcagno and Richard Ault
Florida Gulf Coast University, College of Charleston - Department of Economics and Auburn University
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Public Choice, Voting Models, Ideology

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Economic Development Tax Incentives: A Review of the Perverse, Ineffective, and Unintended Consequences

Excerpt from Adam J. Hoffer and Todd Nesbit, eds., For Your Own Good: Taxes, Paternalism, and Fiscal Discrimination in the Twenty-First Century. Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2018.
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 May 2018
Peter Calcagno and Frank L Hefner
College of Charleston - Department of Economics and College of Charleston - Department of Economics
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taxation, tax policy, government favoritism, cronyism, tax incentives

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Informal Norms Trump Formal Constraints: The Evolution of Fiscal Policy Institutions in the United States

The Journal of Institutional Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Oct 2016
Peter Calcagno and Edward J. Lopez
College of Charleston - Department of Economics and Western Carolina University - College of Business
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Deficits, Fiscal Norms, Institutions, Informal Institutions

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The Evolution of Federal Budget Rules and the Effects on Fiscal Policy: How Informal Norms Have Trumped Formal Constraints

MERCATUS WORKING PAPER
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 07 Jun 2018
Peter Calcagno
College of Charleston - Department of Economics
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Income Inequality and Party Alternation: State-Level Evidence from the United States

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Jul 2021
Peter Calcagno, Alexander Marsella and Yang Zhou
College of Charleston - Department of Economics, Berry College - Department of Economics and University of North Texas - Department of Economics
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income inequality, political instability, regime change, party alternation

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Party-Crashers or Wallflowers: Costly Voting in Elections with Differing Primary Types

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 25 Feb 2014
Calvin Blackwell and Peter Calcagno
College of Charleston - School of Business and College of Charleston - Department of Economics
Downloads 66 (741,763)
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Experimental Applications, Primary Types, Instrumental Voting, Voting

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Incumbent Spending and Gubernatorial Elections: An Investigation of Primary Type and Candidate Deviation

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, Vol. 23, Nos. 1-2, pp. 3-18, 2005
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2011
Christopher Westley and Peter Calcagno
Florida Gulf Coast University and College of Charleston - Department of Economics
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voting models, campaign spending, public choice

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Deficit as Policy: Widening the Scope of Debt-Financed Spending in the United States, 1792-Present Chapter 1 What is the Modern Budget Era Problem?

AIER Public Policy Working Paper No. Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 07 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2023
Peter Calcagno and Edward J. Lopez
College of Charleston - Department of Economics and Western Carolina University - College of Business
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Deficit, Debt, Debt finance, Modern Budget Era, Modern Budget Era Problem, Fiscal Rules, Balanced Budget Rule, Deficit as Policy Rule, Fiscal Commons

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Deficit as Policy: Widening the Scope of Debt-Financed Spending in the United States, 1792-Present Chapter 3 A Fiscal Rules Approach to Explain the Modern Budget Era Problem

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 Feb 2024
Peter Calcagno and Edward J. Lopez
College of Charleston - Department of Economics and Western Carolina University - College of Business
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Deficit, Debt, Debt finance, Modern Budget Era, Modern Budget Era Problem, Fiscal Rules, Balanced Budget Rule, Deficit as Policy Rule, Fiscal Commons