Budget Balances (Deficits and Surpluses) for 54 Middle Income Countries From 1976-2007 / Michael G. Hall .

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Datafile

Contributor:

Hall, Michael G.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 29341.

ICPSR ; 29341

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2010-09-27.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010.

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Summary:

This study examines whether opportunistic and partisan business cycles influence fiscal policy in 54 developing countries when controlling for de facto exchange rate regimes and capital mobility. With most exchange rate regimes, leftist parties are more likely to engage in expansionary fiscal policy, but are less likely to do so as capital mobility rises. With a rigidly fixed rate, however, leftist parties engage in more fiscal expansion with higher capital mobility. Unless an exchange rate is freely falling, an election is more likely to encourage fiscal expansion when capital mobility is high. Cf.: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR29341.v1

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