Public Policy Against Political Frictions
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Keywords
optimal fiscal policy; mandatory and discretionary public spending; political polarization; political turnover; macroeconomic volatility.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
- H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General
- H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2017-02-12 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-POL-2017-02-12 (Positive Political Economics)
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