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Domestic vs. External Economic Sectors and the Political Process: Insights from Greece
Economies, 2022 Building on the well-established relationship between economic dynamics and political processes, we focus on the most important element of the political process, namely, general (or national) elections, and look into their effects on public finance and ...
George Petrakos +4 more
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Political Budget Cycles in Public Revenues: Evidence From Fines
SAGE Open, 2021 This article seeks to ascertain whether local governments make improper use of their discretion and use pecuniary sanctions for electoral purposes. To this end, a sample of Spanish municipalities with a population of more than 1,000 citizens during the ...
Bernardino Benito +2 more
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Political budget cycles in Latin America, 1982-2014
Revista Finanzas y Política Económica, 2020 This paper aims to detect the presence of political budget cycles (PBuCs) around presidential elections in four large Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico) over the 1982-2014 period, in the framework of democratic regimes ...
Pablo Mejía-Reyes +2 more
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Economies, 2022 This study empirically analyzes the alleged existence of political budget cycles in Indonesian local governments. Using panel data, this quantitative study concentrates on capital expenditures, grant expenditures, and social assistance expenditures in ...
Chanif Rizqiyati, Doddy Setiawan
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Political cycles: Beyond rational expectations. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 MOTIVATION AND METHOD:Existing rational expectations models cannot satisfactorily explain why political budget manipulations systematically raise re-election chances and only occur in "specific contexts".
Frank Bohn
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A Comprehensive Overview on Political Budget Cycles in Turkey
İzmir İktisat Dergisi, 2020 Bu çalışmada 2007-2018 yılları arasında Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi döneminde politik bütçe dalgalanmalarının geçerliliği araştırılmıştır. Bu çalışmayı diğer çalışmalardan farklı kılan birkaç özellik bulunmaktadır.
Sedef Şen
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The Euro zone peripheral countries’ sovereign debt crisis: Also a case of non-mature democracies? [PDF]
Panoeconomicus, 2013 The euro zone peripheral countries face a profound sovereign debt crisis threatening the very existence of the euro as we know it. Therefore, the study of the various factors contributing to this crisis is of the utmost importance.
Fernandes Abel Costa L., Mota Paulo R.
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Temporal Aggregation in Political Budget Cycles [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 While existing cross-country studies on political budget cycles rely on annual data, we build a panel with quarterly and monthly data from Latin American and OECD countries over the 1980-2005 period. Disaggregated data allow to center the electoral year more precisely, and show the effects are concentrated in a three-quarter window around elections ...
Jorge M. Streb, Daniel Lema
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Political Budget Cycles in the European Union
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2016 This paper provides research on the theme of the political budget cycles. The goal is to find out whether or not the government tries to manipulate the state budget and its components for the purpose of re-election across the countries of the European ...
Jiří Gregor
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Electoral rules, forms of government, and political budget cycles in transition countries [PDF]
Panoeconomicus, 2008 Recent studies have suggested the existence of 'election-year economics' in fiscal policy in transition countries. This study asks whether such electoral cycles in aggregate measures (overall expenditures, revenues and balance) and spending composition ...
Klašnja Marko
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