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Term limits: do they really affect fiscal policy choices?
Dalle Nogare, Chiara; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2008
According to reputational models of political economy, a term limit may change the behavior of a chief executive because he does not have to stand for election. We test this hypothesis in a sample of 52 countries over the period 1977-2000, using government spending, social and welfare spending...
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Can we rely upon fiscal policy estimates in countries with unreported production of 15 per Cent (or more) of GDP?
Basile, Raffaella; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2011
: quarterly fiscal variables on accrual basis and a time series estimate of tax evasion for the period 1981:1-2006:4. Following … unless the dynamics of the hidden and regular components of the GDP are disentangled. Changes in public spending and the tax … rate generate a reallocation from underground to the regular economy which contributes to obscure the spending and tax …
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