This paper examines the effect of elections on fiscal policies in 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1983 to 1996. The budget surplus proves to be lower than normal in the preelectoral and higher in the postelectoral years. Both the expenditure and revenue sides contribute to this cyclicality
Recent scholarship on budgeting in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries indicates that polit...
This paper investigates the impact of elections on the level and composition of fiscal instruments u...
Most recent cross-country studies on election-motivated fiscal policy assume that the data can be po...
We test for political budget cycles in a panel of eighteen Latin American democracies from 1973 to 2...
"This paper aims to detect the presence of political budget cycles (PBuCs) around presidential elect...
This paper addresses two empirical questions. Is fiscal policy affected by upcoming elections? If so...
Several recent studies find evidence of electoral deficit cycles in a wide cross-section of countrie...
This paper aims to detect the presence of political budget cycles (PBuCs) around presidential electi...
This paper overcomes traditional political budget cycles models, focusing solely on the dynamics of ...
This paper considers whether institutional factors, in this instance electoral systems and procedure...
Latin American countries experienced important changes in the 2000s. The implementation of fiscal re...
A political budget cycle is a periodic fluctua-tion in a government’s fiscal policies, which is indu...
In Latin America there is ample evidence of exchange rate depreciations after elections. Hence, we t...
This paper analyses fiscal policy for several economies in Latin America, from the early nineties to...
Using an original database of legislative and presidential electoral results from the democratic tra...
Recent scholarship on budgeting in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries indicates that polit...
This paper investigates the impact of elections on the level and composition of fiscal instruments u...
Most recent cross-country studies on election-motivated fiscal policy assume that the data can be po...
We test for political budget cycles in a panel of eighteen Latin American democracies from 1973 to 2...
"This paper aims to detect the presence of political budget cycles (PBuCs) around presidential elect...
This paper addresses two empirical questions. Is fiscal policy affected by upcoming elections? If so...
Several recent studies find evidence of electoral deficit cycles in a wide cross-section of countrie...
This paper aims to detect the presence of political budget cycles (PBuCs) around presidential electi...
This paper overcomes traditional political budget cycles models, focusing solely on the dynamics of ...
This paper considers whether institutional factors, in this instance electoral systems and procedure...
Latin American countries experienced important changes in the 2000s. The implementation of fiscal re...
A political budget cycle is a periodic fluctua-tion in a government’s fiscal policies, which is indu...
In Latin America there is ample evidence of exchange rate depreciations after elections. Hence, we t...
This paper analyses fiscal policy for several economies in Latin America, from the early nineties to...
Using an original database of legislative and presidential electoral results from the democratic tra...
Recent scholarship on budgeting in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries indicates that polit...
This paper investigates the impact of elections on the level and composition of fiscal instruments u...
Most recent cross-country studies on election-motivated fiscal policy assume that the data can be po...