Fiscal Instruments, Political Business Cycles and the Emu, Some Stylized Facts.

This paper examines whether incumbent national governments of the member states of the European Union have manipulated the fiscal policy instruments at their disposal in order to create national political business cycles, opportunistic or partisan, in the 1970-98 period.

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Year of publication:	2001
Authors:	Andrikopoulos, A.A. ; Loizides, J.C. ; Prodromidis, K.P.
Institutions:	Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)
Subject:	ELECTIONS \| GOVERNMENT \| FISCAL POLICY

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Series:	DEOS Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	27 pages
Classification:	E3 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles ; E6 - Macroeconomic Policy Formation, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, Macroeconomic Policy, and General Outlook ; H8 - Miscellaneous Issues
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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