Previous studies used general government data to examine whether national governments' electoral motives and ideology … influenced budget composition in OECD countries. General government data includes, however, the state and local level. Using new … data for general and central government over the period 1995-2016, I reexamine political cycles in budget composition. The …

Previous studies used general government data to examine whether national governments' electoral motives and ideology … influenced budget composition in OECD countries. General government data includes, however, the state and local level. Using new … data for general and central government over the period 1995-2016, I reexamine political cycles in budget composition. The …

Previous studies used general government data to examine whether national governments' electoral motives and ideology … influenced budget composition in OECD countries. General government data includes, however, the state and local level. Using new … data for general and central government over the period 1995-2016, I reexamine political cycles in budget composition. The …

Previous studies used general government data to examine whether national governments' electoral motives and ideology … influenced budget composition in OECD countries. General government data includes, however, the state and local level. Using new … data for general and central government over the period 1995-2016, I reexamine political cycles in budget composition. The …

I use new data on central and general governments for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960-2015 (unbalanced panel) to …

This paper describes the empirical evidence on partisan politics in OECD panel studies. I elaborate on the research … designs, the measurement of government ideology and why the empirical studies do not and cannot derive causal effects …. Discussing about 100 panel data studies, the results indicate that leftwing and rightwing governments pursued different economic …

components of government spending and revenue responsiveness and persistence - we are able to infer about the sources of fiscal … behaviour. Drawing on quarterly data we estimate recursively these components within a system of government revenue and spending …

components of government spending and revenue - responsiveness and persistence - we are able to infer about the sources of fiscal … behaviour. Drawing on quarterly data we estimate recursively these components within a system of government revenue and spending …

We examine the extent to which government ideology has influenced monetary policy in OECD countries since the 1970s. In … the 1972-2010 period, Taylor rule specifications do not suggest a relationship between government ideology and monetary … policy was, however, associated with government ideology in the 1990s: short-term nominal interest rates were lower under …