Presidents and the U.S. Economy: An Econometric Exploration

By Alan S. Blinder, Mark W. Watson. 2014

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Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States—a survey (2017, unknown): “A fascinating descriptive study showing that economic performance was better under Democratic than Republican presidents is Blinder and Watson (2016).”
Political Cycles and Stock Returns (2020, unknown): “This paper is also related to empirical studies that analyze the effects of electoral uncertainty, such as Boutchkova et al. (2012) and Julio and Yook (2012), as well as to the broader literature on political uncertainty, which includes the theoretical work of Pástor and Veronesi (2012, 2013) and th”
Are Government Spending Multipliers Greater During Periods of Slack? Evidence from 20th Century Historical Data (2013, unknown): “Auerbach and Gorodnichenko (2012, forthcoming)—henceforth, AG—test this hypothesis and find larger multipliers during recessions in both quarterly post-World War II US data and in annual cross-country panel data since 1985. Their findings suggest multipliers near zero during expansions but between 1”
Populist Leaders and the Economy (2020, background): “Jones and Olken (2005); Snowberg, Wolfers, and Zitzewitz (2007) and Blinder and Watson (2016) study whether leaders or the party in power (e.g., Democrats vs. Republicans) matter for economic outcomes.”
Partisan Politics: The Empirical Evidence from OECD Panel Studies (2017, unknown): “In the United States, by contrast, stock market performance was better overall under democratic administrations than under their republican counterparts (Hibbs 1994 and Blinder and Watson 2016).”