Quantifying the Impact of Political Frictions on Public Policy
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Keywords
fiscal policy; political turnover; political polarization; public rent-seeking.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
- H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
- H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2015-07-04 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-PBE-2015-07-04 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2015-07-04 (Positive Political Economics)
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