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A Cross-National Comparison of Political Business Cycles: Are They More Prevalent in Developing Countries than Developed Countries?
Unformatted Document Text:  17 Table 1: Standard Theoretical Predictions for Political Business Cycles Opportunistic Partisan Pre- Election Post- Election Pre- Election Post-Election GDP + . . Sign depends on party in power Unemployment — . . Sign depends on party in power Inflation + + . Sign depends on party in power Expenditure + . . . Fiscal deficits + . . . Monetary policy + . . . Exchange rates . — . . Source: Most derived from Alesina, Roubini, and Cohen (1999). “.” in a particular cell signifies no theoretical prediction for that cell. The positive or negative in a box indicates whether elections are supposed to increase or decrease the values of the variable listed in the first column.

Authors: Krieckhaus, Jonathan.
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Table 1: Standard Theoretical Predictions for Political Business Cycles


Opportunistic
Partisan
Pre-
Election
Post-
Election
Pre-
Election
Post-Election
GDP
+
.
.
Sign depends on
party in power
Unemployment
.
.
Sign depends on
party in power
Inflation
+
+
.
Sign depends on
party in power
Expenditure
+
.
.
.
Fiscal deficits
+
.
.
.
Monetary policy
+
.
.
.
Exchange rates
.
.
.

Source: Most derived from Alesina, Roubini, and Cohen (1999).
“.” in a particular cell signifies no theoretical prediction for that cell.

The positive or negative in a box indicates whether elections are supposed to increase or
decrease the values of the variable listed in the first column.


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