Are there political cycles hidden inside government expenditures?

Vitor Castro and Rodrigo Martins

No 22/2014, NIPE Working Papers from NIPE - Universidade do Minho

Abstract: This paper examines the presence of political cycles inside the Portuguese governments’ aggregate expenditures by using annual data for 10 expenditure components. The results indicate that the choice of the expenditure components to be increased during election periods by Portuguese governments generally relates to more visible items such as general public services, social protection and health care.

Keywords: Political Budget Cycles; Portugal; Elections; Fiscal Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 D78 H72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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