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Public investment and re-election prospects in developed countries

Katsimē, Margarita; Sarantides, Vassilis - 2013

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Do expected downturns kill political budget cycles?

Bohn, Frank; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020

The political budget cycle (PBC) literature argues that governments expand deficits in election years. However, what happens when an economic downturn is expected? Will the government allow the deficit to expand even further, or will it resort to spending cuts and tax increases? When voters...

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Domestic vs. external economic sectors and the political process : insights from Greece

Petrakos, Giōrgos; Rontos, Kostas; Salvatici, Luca; … - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 8, pp. 1-12

important element of the political process, namely, general (or national) elections, and look into their effects on public … 1974; (ii) to assess whether national elections affect total economic activity in a stabilizing or destabilizing way; and …

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Do elections affect the composition of fiscal policy?

Katsimē, Margarita; Sarantides, Vassilis - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of elections on the level and composition of fiscal instruments using a sample of 19 … find that elections shift public spending towards current and away from capital expenditures. Moreover, although we find no … evidence for an electoral cycle for government deficit and expenditures, we do find a negative effect of elections on revenue …

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Political budget cycles revisited : testing the signalling process

García, Israel; Hayo, Bernd - 2020

A widespread view in the "political budget cycles" literature is that incumbent politicians seek to influence voters' perceptions of their competence and/or preferences by using the composition of the fiscal budget as a signalling tool. However, little is known about whether voters actually...

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