Do fiscal rules dampen the political business cycle?

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Political business cycles 40 years after Nordhaus (2016, background): “Various fiscal rules can reduce PBCs: balanced budget requirements or budget targets (Hallerberg and von Hagen 1998; Clark and Hallerberg 2000; Rose 2006; Alt and Rose 2007; Donahue and Warin 2007; Schneider 2010; Garcia-Sanchez et al. 2011; Benito et al. 2013a; Klomp and de Haan 2013c), delegation…”
The costs and benefits of balanced budget rules: Lessons from a political economy model of fiscal policy (2016, background): “See Savage (1988) for more on the history of BBRs and the importance of the balanced budget philosophy in American politics more generally.”
Conditional political budget cycles: a review of recent evidence (2013, unknown): “As pointed out in the previous section, the share of informed voters may affect the occurrence of political budget cycles (Shi and Svensson 2006). Vergne (2009) tests this hypothesis.”