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Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2015

We study the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies (1975 - 2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard deviation. A similar effect can neither be detected in...

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Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2015

We provide new evidence on the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates. We study month-to-month fluctuations in the growth rate of M1 in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies from 1975 to 2009. The evidence shows an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months...

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Vote Buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual?

Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard - 2015

We study the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies (1975-2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard deviation. A similar effect can neither be detected in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013236

Vote Buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual?

Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard - 2015

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Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2015

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Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - In: The review of economics and statistics 102 (2020) 3, pp. 409-425

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Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in emerging market and developing economies

Haan, Jakob de; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Yu, Shu - 2023

The widening of fiscal deficits during democratic elections is well established. We examine a broader set of fiscal outcomes around elections for a large set of emerging and developing economies (EMDEs), probe for differences between democracies and non-democracies, and estimate the degree to...

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Political consequences of consumer debt relief

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine - 2022

We study consumer debt relief as a tool of distributive politics and ask if debt relief can influence elections. We utilize quasi-experimental variation generated by a very large debt relief program enacted in the Republic of Georgia by a private foundation that affected every sixth voter. We...

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Politics in Poor Places? Clientelism and Elections in Democracies

Golden, Miriam A. - 2020

We review a decade of literature on clientelism, a central topic in the study of developing democracies. We define clientelism as the discretionary distribution of public resources by politicians. We distinguish clientelism that occurs in the pre-electoral period (electoral clientelism) from...

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Validating Precinct-Level Measures of Fraud : Evidence from the Russian Electoral Cycle 2011-2012

Kalinin, Kirill - 2016

This research is designed to explore whether election fraud precinct-level estimates obtained from a finite mixture … fraud. I estimate the precinct-level probabilities from the parametric model of election fraud and compare them against … associated with the clusters of alternative election fraud measures. The data used is from the parliamentary election 2011 and …

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