Price Controls and Electoral Cycles /

This paper studies the interactions between electoral considerations and the imposition of price controls by opportunistic policymakers. The analysis shows that a policy cycle emerges in which price controls are imposed in periods leading to the election, and removed immediately afterwards. The shap...

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1. Verfasser: Asilis, Carlos
Weitere Verfasser: Agenor, Pierre-Richard
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1993.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1993/089
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