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policy strategy has not been matched with enhanced accountability arrangements between the ECB and the European Parliament …
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Using data from a unique survey of members of parliaments in France, Germany and Italy in 2018, we estimate the effects of three dimensions on EU and euro area fiscal reform preferences: nationality, political ideology, and populism. We predict and confirm that a German populist party on the...
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. Did the European Parliament (EP) play a part in this regard, and if so what was it? To answer this question, this paper …
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The ECB is independent, but it is also accountable to the European parliament (EP). Yet, how the EP has held the ECB …
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This paper revisits Political Budget Cycles (PBCs) in the enlarged European Union (EU). Based on a panel of 25 current EU member states from 1996 to 2012, we show that governments frequently fiscally stimulate the economy prior to elections; a phenomenon that is seemingly not only an ‘Eastern...
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of a systematic electoral cycle in fiscal policy (i.e. spending and budget deficits are raised in election years … relative weight voters assign to non-economic issues prior to an election and positively correlated with the uncertainty over …
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