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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主要作者: Schuknecht, Ludger
格式: 雜誌
語言:English
出版: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994.
叢編:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/121
在線閱讀:Full text available on IMF