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Overlapping political budget cycles in the legislative and the executive

Foremny, Dirk; Freier, Ronny; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel; … - 2014

We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it...

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Overlapping political budget cycles

Foremny, Dirk; Freier, Ronny; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel; … - In: Public choice 177 (2018) 1/2, pp. 1-27

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Electoral rules for mayors and incentives to pork-barrel : quasi-experimental evidence from German municipalities ; conference paper

Hessami, Zohal - 2014

state tier. This e ffect only materializes in the election year which suggests that mayors under the new electoral rule put … more e ffort into grant applications for highly visible infrastructure projects in order to increase their re-election …

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How Much Is Your Vote? Opportunistic Business Cycles of Grant Expenditures in Indonesia’s Local Election

Chalil, Tengku Munawar - 2019

The opportunistic political cycle's theories argued that the incumbent raises the visible expenses in the election time …-buying action. The paper tests the argument by using Indonesia local election and grants spending data from 2008 to 2013. Through … treating the endogeneity of incumbency, the analysis results suggest that when the incumbent is participating in the election …

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Electoral cycles in public expenditures : evidence from Czech local governments

Stastna, Lenka - 2015

This paper analyzes local political cycle in Czech municipalities over the period between 1997 and 2013. We apply the system GMM and the difference GMM estimators to identify distortion in current and capital expenditures per capita in electoral and pre-electoral years, while focusing on various...

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Electoral cycles in public expenditures : evidence from Czech local governments

Stastna, Lenka - 2015

previous elections increases pre-election capital spending, on the other hand, its winning margin works in the opposite …

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Parties, Institutions and Political Budget Cycles at the Municipal Level

Cioffi, Marika - 2012

to a national political party induce an election-driven expenditure cycle. Third, pre-electoral expenditure boosts … increase re-election prospects of the incumbent only if she is not affiliated to a party. These results are consistent with the …

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