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Politics, Institutions, and Fiscal Performance in the Argentine Provinces

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Mariano Tommasi () (Department of Economics, Universidad de San Andrés)
Mark P. Jones (Department of Political Science, Michigan State University)
Pablo Sanguinetti (Department of Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)

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Abstract

We posit that the fiscal behavior of Argentine provinces is determined by a common pool game at two levels: within each province, and across political units. In the latter game, the national government has a greater incentive than the provincial governments to internalize the negative externality of fiscal imprudence. Given relatively strong party discipline, the president is able to induce governors from his party to internalize a portion of the externality to a greater extent than opposition governors. In Argentina “party matters” for fiscal behavior, but it does so for reasons different from those identified in studies of OECD countries.

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Paper provided by Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia in its series Working Papers with number 16.

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Length: 29 pages
Date of creation: Jun 1997
Date of revision: Apr 2000
Handle: RePEc:sad:wpaper:16

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Keywords: Argentina; common pool; federalism; fiscal behavior;

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C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data
D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism

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