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Partisan Conflict and Government Spending - New Evidence From the United States

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  • Xuan Hu
  • Agus Salim
  • Kai Shi
  • Meng Yan

    (School of Economics, Jilin University, China)

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To understand and address the issue of how political party disagreement affects the dynamics of fiscal policy, we investigate the potential link between partisan conflict and government spending in the United States. We find that one standard deviation shock of the partisan conflict index reduces aggregate and disaggregated government spending, except in the health and general public service sectors, with the greatest reduction in the education sector.

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  • Xuan Hu & Agus Salim & Kai Shi & Meng Yan, 2022. "Partisan Conflict and Government Spending - New Evidence From the United States," Asian Economics Letters, Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association, vol. 3(3), pages 1-8.
    • Handle: RePEc:ayb:jrnael:73
    DOI: 2022/08/21
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    Keywords

    historical decomposition; vector autoregression; partisan conflict index; government spending;
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    JEL classification:

    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
    • E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
    • H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents

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