Elections, fiscal policy and fiscal illusion

This paper tests the joint hypotheses that policymakers engage in fiscal policy opportunism and that voters respond by rewarding that opportunism with higher vote margins. Furthermore, it investigates the impact of fiscal illusion on the previous two dimensions. Empirical results, obtained with a sa...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mourão, Paulo (author)
Outros Autores: Veiga, Linda Gonçalves (author)
Formato: workingPaper
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2010
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/11686
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/11686