TY - JOUR U1 - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel A1 - Herzog, Bodo T1 - Does transparency mitigate the political budget cycle? JF - Journal of economic studies N2 - The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of transparency on the political budget cycle (PBC) over time and across countries. So far, the literature on electoral cycles finds evidence that cycles depend on the stage of an economy. However, the author shows – for the first time – a reliance of the budget cycle on transparency. The author uses a new data set consisting of 99 developing and 34 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. First, the author develops a model and demonstrates that transparency mitigates the political cycles. Second, the author confirms the proposition through the econometric assessment. The author uses time series data from 1970 to 2014 and discovers smaller cycles in countries with higher transparency, especially G8 countries. KW - transparency KW - e-governance KW - internet data (Google data) KW - political budget cycle KW - Google search data Y1 - 2017 SN - 0144-3585 SS - 0144-3585 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-07-2016-0132 DO - https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-07-2016-0132 VL - 44 IS - 5 SP - 666 EP - 689 S1 - 18 PB - Emerald CY - Bingley ER -