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Political business cycles: evidências empíricas para os municípios paulistas (1989 - 2001)

open access: yesEconomia Aplicada, 2007
Este artigo analisa o comportamento fiscal dos municípios paulistas perante dois fatores de ordem política: o calendário eleitoral e os diferentes partidos políticos dos prefeitos municipais, entre os anos de 1989 e 2001.
Sergio Naruhiko Sakurai   +1 more
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Political budget cycles and election outcomes [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Choice, 2012
This paper addresses two empirical questions. Is fiscal policy affected by upcoming elections? If so, do election-motivated fiscal policies enhance the probability of re-election of the incumbent? Employing data for 65 democratic countries over 1975-2005 in a semi-pooled panel model, we find that in most countries fiscal policy is hardly affected by ...
Klomp, J.G., de Haan, J.
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Elections and the timing of devaluations

open access: yesEconómica, 1998
This paper follows the rational political budget cycle approach, ,extending it in two directions. First, it considers an open economy, to formalize the implications of political budget cycles for nominal exchange rates.
Ernesto Hugo Stein, Jorge Miguel Streb
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Planning ahead in public health? A qualitative study of the time horizons used in public health decision-making

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2008
Background In order to better understand factors that influence decisions for public health, we undertook a qualitative study to explore issues relating to the time horizons used in decision-making.
O'Flaherty Martin   +4 more
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Designing and Developing an Innovation Ecosystem Model For Small and Medium-sized Enterperises in Iran With a Meta-synthesis Approach [PDF]

open access: yesرویکرد‌های نوین در مدیریت و بازاریابی
The aim of the present study is to design and develop an innovative ecosystem model for small and medium-sized enterprises in Iran. The design of this innovation ecosystem model can act as a driving factor for involving various actors in the production ...
Kasra Khaghanizadeh   +3 more
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No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of this Veal

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2016
I was raised on a conventional Jewish-American meat- and potato-based diet during my first two decades. In response to an emerging awareness of health risks related to my typical fare and exposure to alternative diets and, occasionally, the philosophies ...
Edward Weisberg
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Political budget forecast cycles

open access: yes, 2019
By forecasting overly optimistic revenues opportunistic governments can increase spending in order to appear more competent prior to elections. Ex post deficits emerge in election years, thereby producing political forecast cycles - as also found for US states in the empirical literature. In our theoretical moral hazard model we obtain three additional
Bohn, Frank, Veiga, Francisco José
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Balancing the books or winning votes: unveiling the power of fiscal strategies in local elections and the fate of prudent mayors

open access: yesRegional Studies, Regional Science
This research examines how mayors’ fiscal decisions affect their likelihood of re-election, with a particular focus on their use of political business cycle tactics during local elections. The theory suggests that there are some incentives for incumbents
Krzysztof Kluza   +2 more
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Political budget cycles and divided government

open access: yesRegional Studies, 2017
Political budget cycles and divided government. Regional Studies. This study empirically examines the effect of divided governments on the existence of political budget cycles. It uses a setting at the German municipality level, where divided governments occur frequently and can be clearly disentangled from the underlying political system.
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