Electoral and Partisan Manipulation of Public Debt in Developed Democracies, 1956-90

By R. Franzese. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Political Science and International Relations

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Political budget cycles in the European Union and the impact of political pressures (2011, methodology): “32 This indicator has been developed by Franzese (2000) and is calculated as ELET it =”
Are there Political Budget Cycles in the Euro Area? (2006, methodology): “It has been developed by Franzese (2000) and is calculated as: ELE = [(M – 1) + d/D]/12, (2) where M is the month of the election, d is the day of the election and D is the number of days in that month.”
Fighting with one hand tied behind the back: political budget cycles in the West German states (2009, methodology): “To capture opportunistic election strategies I follow Franzese (2000) and generate an indicator for the pre-election year that takes into account the month in which the election is held.”
Do elections affect the composition of fiscal policy in developed, established democracies? (2010, unknown): “One way to deal with this problem when using annual data is to construct a pre-election indicator (elec_2) that takes the value of one at the year preceding election and zero otherwise (see, e.g., Franzese 2000; Potrafke 2006; Angelopoulos and Economides 2008).”
Economic, political, and institutional determinants of public deficits (2003, background): “A notable partial exception to this generalization can be found in the work of Kontopoulos and Perotti (1999) and Franzese (1999) .”
Has the Stability and Growth Pact Impeded Political Budget Cycles in the European Union? (2005, unknown): “This was done by constructing the variable 15 As Franzese (2000) puts it, at least since Hibbs (1977) political economists have argued that parties of the right and left differ in their fiscal policy priorities.”
The Effects of Fiscal Policy in Italy: Evidence from a VAR Model (2007, unknown): “As a further robustness check we studied the effects of political cycles on the behaviour of fiscal policy variables (see Franzese, 2000 andMink and deHaan, 2005 and the studies cited therein).”