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This paper aims to analyze the role of government coalitions in the formulation and implementation of a socioeconomic … development model. It is a qualitative research that focuses on the extent to which the formation of coalitions to support a … with the institutional dimension, in particular the role of the State, of government coalitions, of various public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372361
This paper aims to analyze the role of government coalitions in the formulation and implementation of a socioeconomic … development model. It is a qualitative research that focuses on the extent to which the formation of coalitions to support a … with the institutional dimension, in particular the role of the State, of government coalitions, of various public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281204
This paper presents evidence of electoraly-motivated changes in the budget balance, public expenditures, composition of public expenditures and provincial revenues in Argentine provinces. The empirical study is made using panel data analysis for 22 provinces during the period 1985-2001....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003819659
This paper contributes to an agenda that views the effects of policies and institutional reforms as dependent on the structure of political incentives for national and subnational political actors. The paper studies political incentive structures at the subnational level and the mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104033
A large body of empirical research suggests that welfare spending reduces crime. Contrary to this dominant finding, a few recent studies conclude that there is no relationship between several measures of welfare spending and serious crime. This paper contributes to the debate using data from the...
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The links between subnational political budget cycles (PBCs) and the national government in federal countries have seldom been studied. We study the behavior of the budget balance, public expenditures, and revenues in Argentine provinces during the 1985-2001 period. We find that in election...
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This paper studies the determinants of the distribution of the national budget amongst Argentinean provinces. We evaluate the relevance of the alternative theories of budget allocation using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel technique. Our results confirm our presumption that Federal funds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075018
The mean voter theorem suggests that all parties should rationally converge to the electoral center. Typically this leads to an outcome which is unattractive to the rich. This paper develops a general stochastic model of elections in which the electoral response is affected by the valence (or...
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What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual time series data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. We show...
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Sovereign default models successfully explain business cycle in emerging economies by matching the stylized facts of main economic aggregates in normal and default periods but they usually fail to reproduce both the large levels of debt and spread observed in the data. We introduce political...
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