Arbeitspapier
Overlapping political budget cycles in the legislative and the executive
We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it is important whether the incumbent re-runs. To account for the potential endogeneity associated with this decision, we apply a unique instrumental variables approach based on age and pension eligibility rules. We find sizable and significant effects in expenditures before council elections and before joint elections when the incumbent re-runs.
- Sprache
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                Englisch
 
- Erschienen in
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                Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 14-099
 
- Klassifikation
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                Wirtschaft
 Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
 State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
 State and Local Budget and Expenditures
 State and Local Borrowing
 
- Thema
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                election cycles
 municipal expenditures
 council and mayor elections
 instrumental variables approach
 
- Ereignis
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                Geistige Schöpfung
 
- (wer)
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                Foremny, Dirk
 Freier, Ronny
 Moessinger, Marc-Daniel
 Yeter, Mustafa
 
- Ereignis
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                Veröffentlichung
 
- (wer)
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                Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
 
- (wo)
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                Mannheim
 
- (wann)
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                2014
 
- Handle
- URN
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                        urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-373931
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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                        10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Foremny, Dirk
- Freier, Ronny
- Moessinger, Marc-Daniel
- Yeter, Mustafa
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Entstanden
- 2014
 
        
     
        
    