In this paper we study whether inflation expectations react on variations of election outcome expectations. Using data from 6 countries we show that such a link in fact exists and thus provides empirical evidence supportive to rational partisan theory of business cycles.

Since its inception, the European Union has been facing several challenges. The economic and refugee crises, along with the results of the British referendum, have shaped the future of Europe in the past decade. These challenges among others have encouraged the emergence of populist parties,...

This article examines whether the judges of the French Constitutional Court demonstrated partisanship when ruling on the validity of the elections to the lower house of the French Parliament between 1958 and 2005. It uses a new dataset on the decisions of the Constitutional Court which takes...

Frankreich ist im gegenwärtigen Euroland-Aufschwung der Nachzügler. Erstmals seit Einführung des Euro im Jahr 1999 blieb die Wachstumsrate seines realen Bruttoinlandsprodukts spürbar hinter derjenigen der gesamten Eurozone zurück. Kann Nicolas Sarkozy das Land wieder auf Wachstumskurs...