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Voting and the macroeconomy: separating trend from cycle [PDF]

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Voters respond differently to trend growth as opposed to economic cycles in GDP. When assessing incumbent competence the rational voter filters out economic cycles when they are the product of external shocks but rewards strong trend growth over the ...
Andrew Pickering, John Maloney
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Political Business Cycles at the Municipal Level [PDF]

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This article tests for the existence of rational political business cycles models using a large and unexplored data set of Portuguese municipalities. The data set is well-suited for this purpose because it provides a high level of detail on expenditure ...
Francisco José Veiga   +1 more
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Electoral Control when Policies are for Sale [PDF]

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This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E.
Etienne Farvaque, Gael Lagadec
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Beautiful Politicians [PDF]

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Are beautiful politicians more likely to be elected? To test this, we use evidence from Australia, a country in which voting is compulsory, and in which voters are given ‘How to Vote’ cards depicting photos of the major party candidates as they arrive to
Amy King, Andrew Leigh
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Fiscal Transparency and Fiscal Policy Outcomes in OECD Countries. [PDF]

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It is widely believed and often argued that fiscal, or budgetary, transparency has large, positive effects on fiscal performance. However, the evidence linking transparency and fiscal policy outcomes is far from compelling.
David Dreyer Lassen, James E. Alt
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Dataset of GenAI preferences and digital citizenship multidimensional among Indonesian students. [PDF]

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Prasetiyo WH   +6 more
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A Test of the Rational Electoral-Cycle Hypothesis [PDF]

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This paper develops a three-step empirical methodology to test the rational electoralcycle hypothesis. The first step consists of testing for the existence of electoral cycles in fiscal policy.
Pettersson Lidbom, Per
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