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Fiscal performance of minority governments : new empirical evidence for OECD countries

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

I use new data on central and general governments for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960-2015 (unbalanced panel) to examine fiscal performance under minority governments. The results do not suggest that minority governments had higher fiscal deficits and public expenditure than majority...

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General or central government? : empirical evidence on political cycles in budget composition using new data for OECD countries

Potrafke, Niklas - 2020

Previous studies used general government data to examine whether national governments' electoral motives and ideology influenced budget composition in OECD countries. General government data includes, however, the state and local level. Using new data for general and central government over the...

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Has the Dutch miracle come to an end?

Ours, Jan C. van - 2003

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

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Does public sector outsourcing decrease public employment? : empirical evidence from OECD countries

Potrafke, Niklas - 2018

I examine the extent to which public sector outsourcing relates to public employment in OECD countries. I use new panel data on public sector outsourcing. The sample includes 26 countries over the period 2009-2015. Contrary to common expectations, the results do not suggest that public sector...

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Electoral control when policies are for sale

Farvaque, Étienne; Lagadec, Gael - 2009

This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E. [1994], "Protection for sale", American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850] to include sanctions from...

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Politics and trade policy : an empirical investigation

Eicher, Theo S.; Osang, Thomas - 2001

In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of three prominent endogenous protection models. Is protection for sale, or do altruistic policy makers worry about political support? We find strong evidence that protection is indeed for sale. The important new result is, however, that not only...

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Using real-time data to test for political budget cycles

Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2012 - This version: September 2012

We use real-time annual data on the fiscal balance, government current spending, current revenues and net capital outlays as published at a half yearly frequency in the OECD Economic Outlook for 25 OECD countries. For each fiscal year t we have a number of forecasts, a first release, and...

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The political economy of financial systems : evidence from suffrage reforms in the last two centuries

Degryse, Hans; Lambert, Thomas; Schwienbacher, Armin - 2013 - This version: August 23, 2013

Initially, voting rights were limited to wealthy elites providing political support for stock markets. The franchise expansion induces the median voter to provide political support for banking development as this new electorate has lower financial holdings and benefits less from the uncertainty...

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Does corruption erode trust in government? : evidence from a recent surge of local scandals in Spain

Solé-Ollé, Albert; Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar - 2014

We examine whether a corruption scandal in which the incumbent is implicated undermines trust in local government. We use a novel dataset containing information on local corruption scandals reported in Spain during the period 1999 - 2009, and data on the level of trust expressed in local...

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Walk the line : conflict, state capacity and the political dynamics of reform

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2014 - Rev.

This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform's initial success having a negative impact...

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