cycle manifests itself in election year tax cuts and savings on administration costs. Universal suffrage, where all adult … budget cycle manifests itself in election year hikes in capital spending and a reduction in current spending …

2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawing on data from the …

dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model incorporating both technology and political re-election shocks. The later are … uncertain prospects of re-election, find it optimal to follow relatively shortsighted fiscal policies, and that this hurts …

(1975-2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard deviation … related to systemic vote buying which requires significant amounts of cash at election times. The finely timed increase in M1 …

autonomously by German municipalities. As election dates vary across local councils, the data allows us to disentangle effects … behavior as the growth rate of the local business tax is significantly reduced in the election year and the year prior to the … election, while it jumps up in the year after the election. This pattern turns out to be robust against a number of sensitivity …

positive effect of election stakes on turnout …

interested in: Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on close … election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find that the party of the mayor can receive a bonus of 4 …