“…or the fiscal constraints that come with the adoption of alternative accounting methods in the public sector (for the effects of accrual accounting on public finances, e.g. seeChristofzik, 2019, Raffer, 2020 as well asDorn et al, 2021). We also do not consider papers that solely study the effects of supranational rules, say, by introducing a dummy for a time period after the introduction of the European Stability and Growth Pact on the country level, on public investments or by using mean-comparisons of EU countries only.7 The evidence that most studies find no significant results is even more remarkable as a potential publication bias would rather suggest a bias towards significant findings (see for instance,Mandon & Cazals, 2019).…”