In this paper we study the link between elections, fiscal policy and economic growth/fluctuations. The set-up is a … uncertain prospects of re-election, find it optimal to follow relatively shortsighted fiscal policies, and that this lowers …

does not affect re-election prospects. We also find that voters punish politicians who create deficits during elections … their re-election. This paper investigates the impact of electoral manipulation of the level and composition of fiscal … policy on incumbent’s re-election prospects. This impact is estimated for a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1972 …

I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public …. The results show that the reversed CPI was about 0.4 points higher in election years than in other years, indicating that … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …

This paper documents that surprise election outcomes - measured as deviations between realised vote shares and expected … vote shares based on a newly constructed dataset of opinion polls and party and candidate vote shares close to election day … higher surprise is associated with a 0.37 percentage point lower year-on-year growth rate one year after the election. These …

autonomously by German municipalities. As election dates vary across local councils, the data allows us to disentangle effects … related to the timing of elections from common trends. Using a rich panel data-set for German municipalities, we assess the … impact of elections on local business tax choices. The findings support the notion of a political cycle in tax setting …

We study the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies … (1975 - 2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard … is related to systemic vote buying which requires significant amounts of cash at election times. The finely timed …

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. …

deciding on increases in salaries until after elections. We investigate electoral cycles in the salary increases of German …' salaries were influenced by elections. In fact, MPs' salaries increased by 0.30 to 0.37 percent when employees' salaries …