Are There Political Cycles Hidden Inside Government Expenditures?

Vitor Castro and Rodrigo Martins

No 2014-23, GEMF Working Papers from GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra

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)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2014-11
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Forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters, 23:1(2016), 1-4

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