Election results and opportunistic policies: A new test of the rational political business cycle model

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Political budget cycles in Indonesia at the district level (2013, background): “1 Portugal is an exception to this rule; cf. Aidt et al. (2011).”
Conditional political budget cycles: a review of recent evidence (2013, unknown): “For recent studies investigating whether electoral competitiveness influences the degree to which governments manipulate fiscal policy we refer to Alt and Rose (2009), Efthyvoulou (2012), Aidt et al. (2011), and Veiga and Veiga (2012). Also term limits may condition the occurrence of PBCs. See, for ”
Political business cycles 40 years after Nordhaus (2016, background): “This idea of a dual behavior would be taken up by Lau and Frey (1971) and empirically tested by several papers at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, the more frequently quoted papers being Frey and Schneider (1978a,b). Finally, in 1977, Donald Wittman demonstrates analytically that”