How Do Budget Deficits and Economic Growth Affect Reelection Prospects? Evidence from a Large Panel of Countries

By Adi Brender, Allan Drazen. 2008

552 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/24c29ce9589562fa02a9a73aa53e09cc66acc505

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Economics and Econometrics

In Political Science and International Relations

Citations in the corpus

Ghost-House Busters: The Electoral Response to a Large Anti Tax Evasion Program (2016, unknown): “…τ)) + (1 − p̂)U(1) + p̂WE(λ, e), (1) 11For empirical applications based on the retrospective voting model framework see: Brender (2003); Besley and Pratt (2006); Brender and Drazen (2008); Ferraz and Finan (2008); Alesina, Carloni, and Lecce (2011); Nannicini, Stella, Tabellini and Troiano (2012).”
Uncertainty about Government Policy and Stock Prices (2012, background): “Brender and Drazen (2008) find that this relation is significant only among the less developed countries.”
Do elections affect the composition of fiscal policy in developed, established democracies? (2010, unknown): “Furthermore, some studies support the view that voters seem to be fiscal conservatives and punish rather than reward loose fiscal policies during election years (see, e.g., Peltzman 1992; Brender and Drazen 2008).”
Do Better Paid Politicians Perform Better? Disentangling Incentives from Selection (2013, unknown): “As empirical studies on political budget cycles, see—among others—Akhmedov and Zhuravskaja (2004) and Brender and Drazen (2008).”
Opportunistic and partisan election cycles in Brazil: new evidence at the municipal level (2011, result): “This last result is connected with the recent study of Brender and Drazen (2008) , who test whether an increase in the government’s budget deficit during an election year helps the incumbent to get reelected.”
Term limits and political budget cycles at the local level: evidence from a young democracy (2015, unknown): “These later studies were aligned somewhat with the “voters as fiscal conservatives” concept (Brender (2003); Brender & Drazen (2008); Peltzman (1992)), for which the median voter prefers less - rather than more - government spending and thus 1Important initial references on opportunistic political…”