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Elections related cycles in publicly supplied goods in Albania
Kächelein, Holger; Lami, Endrit; Imami, Drini - 2010
improvements. In Albania, production and supply of electricity (for the time span of our analyzes) was controlled by KESH … Albania, and it is publicly run. Throughout the transition, supply of electricity, due to various technical and economic …, production and import of electricity in Albania. Our hypothesis is that before elections, electricity consumption may increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300840
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Elections related cycles in publicly supplied goods in Albania
Kächelein, Holger; Lami, Endrit; Imami, Drini - 2010
improvements. In Albania, production and supply of electricity (for the time span of our analyzes) was controlled by KESH … Albania, and it is publicly run. Throughout the transition, supply of electricity, due to various technical and economic …, production and import of electricity in Albania. Our hypothesis is that before elections, electricity consumption may increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003955876
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Election results and oportunistic policies : A new test of the rational political business cycle model
Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard; Veiga, Francisco José; Veiga, … - 2011
The literature on the rational PBC suggests that politicians systematically manipulate economic and fiscal conditions before elections to increase their chances of eelection. Most tests of this theory look for evidence of pre-election distortions in fiscal policy. We propose a new test that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223422
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Political cycles in income from privatization: The case of Albania
Imami, Drini; Lami, Endrit; Kächelein, Holger - 2011
on PBC in Albania found clear evidence of fiscal expansion before elections. In addition to increased income from taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304674
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A new view into political business cycles : household expenditures in Albania
Kächelein, Holger (contributor); Imami, Drini (contributor) - 2008
the voters. Following other researches for PBC in Albania, in which there was found clear evidence of fiscal expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784386
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Political cycles in income from privatization : the case of Albania
Imami, Drini; Lami, Endrit; Kächelein, Holger - 2011
on PBC in Albania found clear evidence of fiscal expansion before elections. In addition to increased income from taxes … privatization is analyzed in conjunction with PBC. -- Albania ; Political Business Cycle ; Privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007643
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Political cycles in income from privatization: The case of Albania
Imami, Drini; Lami, Endrit; Kächelein, Holger - Bamberg Economic Research Group on Government and … - 2011
on PBC in Albania found clear evidence of fiscal expansion before elections. In addition to increased income from taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018209
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A new view into political business cycles: Household behaviour in Albania
Lami, Endrit; Kächelein, Holger; Imami, Drini - In: Acta Oeconomica 64 (2014) November, pp. 201-224
intention of impressing potential voters. Previous research on PBC in Albania reveals clear evidence of fiscal expansion before …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094495
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Extra votes to signal loyalty : regional political cycles and national elections in Russia
Sidorkin, Oleg; Vorobyev, Dmitriy - 2018
Under the system of appointing regional governors by the president, which existed in Russia between 2005-2012, governors' loyalty to the central government and particularly their ability to deliver satisfactory results to the ruling party in national-level elections were crucial to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926909
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Banking behaviour and political business cycle in Africa : the role of independent regulatory policies of the central bank
Ofori-Sasu, Daniel; Agbloyor, Elikplimi Komla; Nsafoah, … - 2024
This study examines the effect of regulatory independence of the central bank in shaping the impact of electoral cycles on bank lending behaviour in Africa. It employs the dynamic system Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) Two-Step estimator for a panel dataset of 54 African countries over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514254