Fiscal Transparency, Political Parties, and Debt in OECD Countries

By David Dreyer Lassen, James E. Alt. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Transparency, Political Polarization, and Political Budget Cycles in OECD Countries (2006, methodology): “Individual country scores are in Alt and Lassen (2006), Figure 1.”
Does government ideology influence budget composition? Empirical evidence from OECD countries (2010, background): “The results by Alt and Lassen (2006), for example, suggest that right-wing governments tend to have higher deficits than left-wing governments.”
The Determinants of Local Government's Financial Transparency (2011, background): “Von Hagen (1992), Alesina et al. (1999), Stein et al. (1998), Marcel and Tokman (2002) and Alt and Lassen (2006) find that more transparent budget procedures and institutions are related to lower deficit and debt.”
The Consequences of Fiscal Decentralization on Poverty and Income Equality (2011, unknown): “This is the case of the work by Alt and Lassen (2006) focused on the effects of fiscal transparency on the accumulation of public debt in OECD countries.”
Budget Transparency in Local Governments: An Empirical Analysis (2013, background): “This is the case of the work by Alt and Lassen (2006) focused on the effects of fiscal transparency on the accumulation of public debt in OECD countries. When dealing with endogeneity problems of transparency as regressor, they also find that measures of political competition, presidential system an”
Do elections affect the composition of fiscal policy in developed, established democracies? (2010, unknown): “In some models (see, e.g., Alesina and Tabellini 1990; Alt and Lassen 2006 ) excessive spending and deficit creation crucially rely on the assumption that policymakers differ in their ideologies regarding the desired composition of public spending, since partisan differences increase the incumbent’”
Fighting with one hand tied behind the back: political budget cycles in the West German states (2009, background): “…diversified theories 3See, inter alia, Peltzman (1992); Alesina et al. (1998); Brender (2003); Buti and van der Noord (2003); Von Hagen (2003); Andrikopoulos et al. (2004); Brender and Drazen (2005); Drazen and Eslava (2005); Mink and de Haan (2005); Alt and Lassen (2006a, 2006b); Schneider (2007).”
Political Budget Cycles in New Versus Established Democracies (2005, unknown): “(3)For less-developed countries, see, Ames (1987) for evidence of a political expenditure cycle in 17 Latin American countries, Block (2000) on a political cycle in both fiscal and monetary policy in a cross-section of 44 Sub-Saharan African countries, and Schuknecht (1996), as well as individual co”
Citizens, legislators, and executive disclosure: the political determinants of fiscal transparency (2013, background): “With regard to budget (or fiscal) transparency, empirical studies have found that it improves fiscal performance (Alt and Lassen 2006), lowers sovereign borrowing costs (Glennerster and Shin 2008), and decreases corruption (Reinikka and Svensson 2004).”
Conditional political budget cycles: a review of recent evidence (2013, unknown): “…environment, while Brender and Drazen (2005) argue that these differences are caused by countries’ experiences with democracy.10 Alt and Lassen (Alt and Lassen 2006a, 2006b) point to differences in fiscal policy transparency and Streb and Torrens (2012) attribute differences in PBCs between…”