Political Budget Cycles: The Case of the Western German Länder

By E. Galli, S. Rossi. 2002

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Decentralization and Local Governments' Performance: How Does Fiscal Autonomy Affect Spending Efficiency? (2012, unknown): “…and FISCAUT : this reveals that the opportunistic behaviour of incumbent politicians highlighted by the empirical literature on the “electoral budget cycle” (e.g., Galli and Rossi, 2002; Veiga and Veiga, 2007) is conditioned by the presence of fiscal constraints imposed on the local government.”
Fighting with one hand tied behind the back: political budget cycles in the West German states (2009, background): “…federal government (see Appendix, Tables 8 and 9) and in line with most work on partisan cycles in the German states (e.g., Seitz 2000; Galli and Rossi 2002; Jochimsen and Nuscheler 2005; Berger and Holler 2007).25 One possible explanation for this finding is that conservative 25Belke (2000)…”
Public spending interactions and local politics. Empirical evidence from French municipalities (2008, methodology): “Empirical studies that use the IV approach to estimate spatial coefficients are Ladd (1992), Kelejian and Robinson (1993), Brett and Pinske (2000), Heyndels and Vuchelen (1998), Figlio et al.”
Political business cycles 40 years after Nordhaus (2016, background): “…spending components to discriminate those privileged by the incumbent: for example, van Dalen and Swank (1996), Kneebone and McKenzie (2001), Galli and Rossi (2002), Serritzlew (2005), Veiga and Veiga (2007a, 2007b), Vergne (2009), Drazen and Eslava (2010), Katsimi and Sarantides (2012),…”
Is There an Election Cycle in Public Employment? Separating Time Effects from Election Year Effects (2011, background): “…Andrikopoulos et al., 2004, Blais and Nadeau, 1992, and Kneebone and McKenzie, 2001), tax rates (see, e.g., Andrikopoulos et al,. 2004, Kneebone and McKenzie, 2001, and Pettersson-Lidbom, 2003), and deficits (see, e.g., Brender and Drazen, 2004, Galli and Rossi, 2002, and Shi and Svensson, 2006).”
Business Taxes and the Electoral Cycle (2012, background): “3Other studies with a focus on sub-national governments provide evidence for electoral cycles in spending and deficits for the German state level (Galli and Rossi, 2002), for Sweden (Pettersson-Lidbom, 2001), for regional governments in Russia (Akhmedov and Zhuravskaya, 2004), and for Colombian…”
Election results and opportunistic policies: A new test of the rational political business cycle model (2011, background): “20 Based on the discussion of exclusion restrictions above, we can expand equations (16) 18The “Quadros de Pessoal” is a yearly mandatory employment survey that covers virtually all privately owned firms employing paid labor in Portugal (public servants and own employment are not included).”