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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書誌詳細
第一著者: Schuknecht, Ludger
フォーマット: 雑誌
言語:English
出版事項: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994.
シリーズ:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/121
オンライン・アクセス:Full text available on IMF