composition, gender budget statement, initiatives taken by various plans, budgetary allocation vocational training programs, work …

The performance of the capital budget has been a subject of debate between the legislative and executive arms of the … Nigerian government since 1999. Available statistics suggest that the annual budget has not been able to improve the lives of … Nigerians over the past several years because of the weak link between capital budget implementation and poverty reduction, as …

The budget forms the legal basis of government spending. If a budget is not in place at the beginning of the fiscal … continuous-time war-of-attrition model of budgeting in a presidential style-democracy to explain the duration of budget … negotiations. We build our model around budget baselines as reference points for loss averse negotiators. We derive three testable …

This paper empirically analyses the relationship between political leaders' socioeconomic backgrounds and public budget … determinant of fiscal budget decisions. Our theory-consistent findings show that the tenures of lower-class leaders - i …

rule of the Maastricht Treaty had a significant impact on political budget cycles in the EU, but did little to constrain … budget process enabling governments to commit to the rule. We find that strong fiscal rules have been effective. We conclude …

This is the first study that analyzes whether budget balance expectations are anchored and whether budget balance rules … effectively anchor expectations. To this end, we use a unique data set which covers budget balance expectations in 17 countries … that implemented a budget balance rules. While our results are mixed concerning the general impact of budget balance rules …