The fourteenth volume of the Journal of Government and Economics (JGE) was released in the summer of 2024, with articles exploring a variety of topics in the emerging field of government and economics. Nuno Palma and Carolyn Sissoko present a financial history of the Seven Years’ War, arguing that the war and associated Bank of England actions led to a transformation of the British financial system. Brian Baugus, Feler Bose and Jeffry Jacob investigate the impact of Administrative Procedures Acts in the US, analyzing changes to state rulemaking procedures and restrictions on regulatory agencies. Yutaka Suzuki examines how governments, as a national development strategy, induce incentives between multiple categories of companies in a model analysis of "controlled competition" under "State Capitalism." A.S. Alade and A.A. Kilishi add to existing empirical evidence on how political business cycles affect macro-fiscal performance, showing that election motives affect macro-fiscal forecasts and hence macro-fiscal forecast errors.

Crowding in during the Seven Years’ War

Nuno Palma, Carolyn Sissoko

Preference alignment or executive predominance: The rise of states’ rule making provisions in the U.S.

Brian Baugus, Feler Bose, Jeffry Jacob

'Controlled Competition': How Governments Can Induce Long-Term Competition

Yutaka Suzuki

Political business cycle and macro-fiscal forecast errors in sub-saharan Africa

A.S. Alade, A.A. Kilishi