Are there political cycles hidden inside government expenditures?
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- Vítor Castro & Rodrigo Martins, 2014. "Are there political cycles hidden inside government expenditures?," NIPE Working Papers 22/2014, NIPE - Universidade do Minho.
- Vítor Castro & Rodrigo Martins, 2014. "Are There Political Cycles Hidden Inside Government Expenditures?," GEMF Working Papers 2014-23, GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra.
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- H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
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