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Political budget cycles at the municipal level in Croatia
Financial Theory and Practice, 2014 This paper examines the existence of the political budget cycle (PBC) at the local unit level in Croatia. The research was focused on a sample of 19 county centres, the City of Zagreb and Pula in the period from 2002 to 2011.
Velibor Mačkić
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PLoS ONE, 2021 The decades before 1990 were dramatic for Latin American economies. However, from 1990 onwards, a set of policies followed by the various states in the region acheived economic stabilization with real income recovery.
Nadja Simone Menezes Nery de Oliveira +1 more
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Fiscal decentralization in Poland: 2004-2019 municipal and city dataset
Data in Brief, 2023 This dataset covers 2476–2479 Polish municipalities and cities (dependent on the year) over a period from 2004 when Poland joined the EU to the pre-COVID-19-pandemic 2019.
Rafał Trzeciakowski +2 more
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Do Fiscal Rules Constrain Political Budget Cycles? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 AbstractWe ask whether fiscal rules constrain incumbents from using fiscal policy tools for reelection purposes. Using data on fiscal rules provided by the IMF for a sample of 77 (advanced and developing) countries over the 1984–2015 period, we find that strong fiscal rules dampen political budget cycles.
Gootjes, Bram +2 more
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Political budget cycles and media freedom [PDF]
Electoral Studies, 2017 This paper examines the effects of elections on the conduct of central governments' fiscal policies. To do so, it uses a unique panel database that includes disaggregated spending and revenue series at the central government level for multiple countries over the 1975–2010 period.
Francisco José Veiga +2 more
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The Impact of Recent Economic Crises on Income Inequality and the Risk of Poverty in Greece
Economies, 2023 We consider the impact of the two recent economic crises, one that resulted from the great recession of 2007–2009 and one following the COVID-19 pandemic, on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece.
George Petrakos +3 more
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Conditional political budget cycles: a review of recent evidence
Public Choice, 2013 Until recently, most research on political budget cycles was based on the (often implicit) presumption that these cycles do not differ across countries. However, more recent studies focus on heterogeneity. This paper surveys studies examining the factors conditioning the occurrence and strength of manipulation of fiscal policy for electoral purposes ...
de Haan, J., Klomp, J.G.
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Sources of Debt Accumulation in Resource-Dependent Provinces [PDF]
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2015 Governments in provinces relying on natural resource commodities for significant amounts of revenue face the distinct challenge of unpredictably fluctuating budget circumstances.
Ronald D. Kneebone
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Political Budget Cycles in European Public Procurement [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 This paper studies whether political budget cycles occur in public procurement in the European Union. Using project- level data from Tenders Electronic Daily (2008-2018), I analyze different steps along the procurement process, namely the publication of the contract notice, the awarding of the contract, and the completion of the project. While there is
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, 2019 Abstract This chapter reviews the literature on political budget cycles (PBCs), focusing on studies that analyze the conditionality of opportunistic effects. First, factors that affect incentives of politicians to embark on pre-electoral policy manipulations are highlighted, and then factors that influence the capability of those ...
Veiga, Linda Gonçalves +2 more
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