An event study analysis is performed on consumer confidence around election times using an effective sample of 84 … incumbent party wins or loses. Consumer confidence is able to predict positively the probability of re-election of the incumbent …

This paper studies the existence of election cycles in public procurement in the European Union for the national level …

results of the system GMM revealed that the fiscal deficit is significantly large in election years and the deficit spending … spills into the year after the election, though not as high as in the election year. We could not, however, find a … significant effect in the pre-election year. In addition, we found evidence suggesting that though democracy significantly lowers …