Election results and opportunistic policies : a new test of the rational political business cycle model
The literature on the rational PBC suggests that politicians systematically manipulate economic and fiscal conditions before elections to increase their chances of reelection. Most tests of this theory look for evidence of pre-election distortions in fiscal policy. We propose a new test that explore...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/12890 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/12890 |