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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Political budget cycles"”.
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Political budget cycles in Latin America: fiscal policy effectiveness or regulated markets?
Within the Political Budget Cycle theory (PBC), it is well known that reelection-seeking incumbents have incentives to manipulate economic outcomes through fiscal policy. However, there is no research to asses the conditions under which manipulating taxes and spending effectively serve those …
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Essays of Political and Cultural Institutions
… civil service system—in dampening political budget cycles across U.S. state governments. Using new data on state-specific civil service reforms throughout the twentieth century enables me to account for cross-state institutional heterogeneity, as well as to exploit within-state …
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Empirical studies in public economics in developing countries
… of old age security; and two, the effect of political institutions on government policy and performance. Chapter 1, entitled Inter-generational Transfers and Intra-household Bargaining: Evidence from Indonesia, examines whether there is bargaining between husbands and wives within the donor …
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Mismatched motives: the economic consequences of distorted incentives in the public sector
… Chapter 2 (co-authored with Frank Bohn) examines Political Budget Cycles (PBCs), i.e., governments trying to improve their re-election chances by using fiscal instruments, like deficits. Governments can do so, as they can shift voters’ expectations of government competence because some voters are …