Political budget cycles in new versus established democracies

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1271-1295

  Brender, Adi ^a   Drazen, Allan ^b  

^a The Bank of Israel   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiscal manipulation; New democracy; Political budget cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244437236     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

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