Fiscal Performance of Minority Governments: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries
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- Potrafke, Niklas, 2019. "Fiscal performance of minority governments: New empirical evidence for OECD countries," Munich Reprints in Economics 78253, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
- Niklas Potrafke, 2019. "Fiscal Performance of Minority Governments: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries," ifo Working Paper Series 305, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich.
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Keywords
minority governments; organized support of opposition parties; budget deficits; public expenditure; general and central government; OECD countries; panel data models;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H00 - Public Economics - - General - - - General
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
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