Political Business Cycles and Expenditure Policies in Developing Countries /

The paper studies empirically fiscal policies around elections in 35 developing countries. It finds that governments try to improve their reelection prospects with the help of expansionary expenditure policies. Rising fiscal deficits before elections are followed by fiscal consolidation afterwards....

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मुख्य लेखक: Schuknecht, Ludger
स्वरूप: पत्रिका
भाषा:English
प्रकाशित: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994.
श्रृंखला:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/121
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:Full text available on IMF