Political business cycles at the municipal level

The present article tests predictions of rational political business cycle models using a large and previously unexplored data set of Portuguese municipalities. This data allows for a clean test of these predictions due to the high level of detail on expenditure items, an exogenous fixed election sc...

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Main Author: Veiga, Linda Gonçalves (author)
Other Authors: Veiga, Francisco José (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/6823
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/6823