Political determinants of budget deficits: Coalition effects versus minority effects

The political economy of the German Länder deficits: weak governments meet strong finance ministers

“…Rogoff and Sibert (1988) suggested that fiscal competence can be signaled via low deficits in pre-election yearsexactly the pattern that we detected. Easaw and Garratt (2000) UK Conservative governments (1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992) government expenditures Transfers and expenditures are responsive to national income in preelection periods Edin and Ohlsson (1991) 13 OECD countries public deficit Roubini and Sachs (1989) results are driven by minority governments Galli and Rossi (2002) 11 West German states government expenditures deficits/surplus expenditure categories no partisan trends evidence for political business cycle (election years)…”

The growth of public health expenditures in OECD countries: Do government ideology and electoral motives matter?

“…Roubini and Sachs (1989) constructed an index of power dispersion which distinguishes between the number of coalition partners as well as if the government was a minority government. Unfortunately, this procedure mixes the quantitative feature of the number of parties in the coalition with a qualitative feature, namely if this government has a majority in parliament or not (Edin and Ohlsson (1991)). Therefore, we first install a variable controlling for the number of parties in government.…”

Political Business Cycles in EU Accession Countries

“…changes in the gross debt burden in OECD countries. Edin and Ohlsson (1991) break up the index into dummy variables and find only that minority governments have an effect. Clark and Hallerberg (2000, Ibiden) also use Edin and Ohlsson's (1991, ibid) formulation in their regression work.…”