Can Credit Rating Agencies Affect Election Outcomes?
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Keywords
Elections; Credit ratings; Financial constraints; Municipal bonds; Government spending; Economic conditions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage
- H74 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Borrowing
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-POL-2017-11-19 (Positive Political Economics)
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