combine the introduction of a gender quota with the transparency reform to study gender differences in budget forecast errors … transparency rules on budget forecast errors. After the reform, municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants were not obligated … to provide quarterly information on cumulative budget execution and forecast deviations. Using a difference …

Do gender differences matter for politicians' budgetary behaviour when confronted with an exogenous change in the … municipalities from the Madrid region for 2010−2019, we compare gender differences in social services spending before and after the … differences between municipalities conditional on the gender composition of local governments, i.e. council and mayor. Whereas …

. Differentiating between four sizes of municipalities, the gender influence is studied along two dimensions: mayor's sex and share of … government is gender balanced. However, in the (rare) case of female-dominated governments, mayors do not appear to engage in PBC …

Do gender differences matter for politicians' budgetary behaviour when confronted with an exogenous change in the … municipalities from the Madrid region for 2010-2019, we compare gender differences in social services spending before and after the … differences between municipalities conditional on the gender composition of local governments, i.e. council and mayor. Whereas …

can be considered as exogenously given in the budgeting process. We find that forecast errors at various forecast horizons …

. Differentiating between four sizes of municipalities, the gender influence is studied along two dimensions: mayor's sex and share of … government is gender balanced. However, in the (rare) case of female-dominated governments, mayors do not appear to engage in PBC …

Do gender differences matter for politicians’ budgetary behaviour when confronted with an exogenous change in the … municipalities from the Madrid region for 2010−2019, we compare gender differences in social services spending before and after the … differences between municipalities conditional on the gender composition of local governments, i.e. council and mayor. Whereas …

countries (Germany, France, Italy and Spain) to show that government (consumption) targets convey useful information about ex …

countries (Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) to show that government (consumption) targets convey useful information about ex …