Klomp, Jeroen; Haan, Jakob De - In: Applied Economics 45 (2013) 3, pp. 329-341
Most recent cross-country studies on election-motivated fiscal policy assume that the data can be pooled. As various tests suggest that our data for some 70 democratic countries for the period 1970--2007 cannot be pooled, we use the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimator to test whether Political...