Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy

Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy
Author: Alberto Alesina
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262510943

This book examines how electoral laws, the timing of election, the ideological orientation of governments, and the nature of competition between political parties influence unemployment, economic growth, inflation, and monetary and fiscal policy. The book presents both a thorough overview of the theoretical literature and a vast amount of empirical evidence.

Political Cycles in a Developing Economy

Political Cycles in a Developing Economy
Author: Stuti Khemani
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2000
Genre: Business cycles
ISBN:

Empirical results from India suggest that politicians exert greater effort in managing public works during election years. Surprisingly, there is no evidence of a populist spending spree to sway voters just before elections.

Political Business Cycles

Political Business Cycles
Author: Thomas D. Willett
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 554
Release: 1988
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780822308423

"A Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy book." Includes bibliographies and index.

Political Business Cycles

Political Business Cycles
Author: Bruno S. Frey
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Business cycles
ISBN: 9781858983998

A collection of articles on how the government influences the economy in order to secure re-election. This book surveys the empirical and major theoretical approaches, such as vote maximization, partisan and vote-cum-partisan models, and rational political business cycles. It provides extensions including the role of the central bank, of direct democracy, and the cycles in European communist countries, as well as discussing policy relevance.

The Political Economy of Innovation Development

The Political Economy of Innovation Development
Author: Iurii Bazhal
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-07-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783319548517

This book finds that the R&D and technological innovation of a country is not a result, but a factor, of sustained economic growth. Bazhal develops Schumpeter's theory to argue that genuine economic growth - especially in transitioning and developing countries - is only possible with innovation. With a particular focus on the work of Ukrainian economists, Tugan-Batanobvsky and Vernadsky, the text seeks to move the discipline forward and explain why innovation has become a primary factor of economic development in recent decades and why its role will become even more dominant in the future. Chapters interrogate whether modern economic theory can explain how we ensure the effective functioning of the market economy. The book shows that explanations of economists and politicians regarding the nature of the current economic and financial crisis, and the causes of huge gaps in levels of wealth in market economies, demonstrates that there are not enough satisfactory answers to this question.

Global Business Cycles and Developing Countries

Global Business Cycles and Developing Countries
Author: Eri Ikeda
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000712540

This book investigates how global business cycles impact the economies of developing countries. Global business cycles, the wave-like movements of economic expansion followed by contraction in aggregate economic activities, impact all economies comprising the global economy. The patterns being shown in developing countries correspond increasingly to those in the global north, and yet there is a relative dearth of studies exploring whether global business cycles exist and how they operate in developing economies. This book explores how cycles operate at the global and sub-global developing country levels, with a particular focus on the level of development and the structure of the economies. Drawing an important distinction between cycles and fluctuations, the book criticises mainstream conceptualisation and identification of cycle phenomena, and instead proposes an alternative conception and methodology for the identification of cycles. Along the way, the book also delves into the manufacturing and rise of China, and other potential competitors in the industrial arena, as increasingly important drivers of global cycles and global economic growth. This book will be an important read for researchers and upper-level students of development economics and international political economy.

The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy

The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy
Author: Barry R. Weingast
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1112
Release: 2008-06-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199548471

Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.

Advances in Longitudinal Data Methods in Applied Economic Research

Advances in Longitudinal Data Methods in Applied Economic Research
Author: Nicholas Tsounis
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2021-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030639703

This volume presents new methods and applications in longitudinal data estimation methodology in applied economic. Featuring selected papers from the 2020 the International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE 2020) held virtually due to the corona virus pandemic, this book examines interdisciplinary topics such as financial economics, international economics, agricultural economics, marketing and management. Country specific case studies are also featured.

Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500

Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500
Author: Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107009553

Examines differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin America and mainland North America since the seventeenth century.