TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Herzog, Bodo
A1  - Haslanger, Patrick
T1  - Does e-governance mitigate the political budget cycle?
JF  - International proceedings of economics development and research
N2  - This paper studies the impact of governmental transparency on the political business cycle. The literature on electoral cycles finds evidence that cycles depend on the stage of the economy. However, we show a reliance of the cycle on transparency. We use data for G7 countries and compare it with less developed OECD countries. Our theory states that transparency reduces the political cycles due to peer pressure and by voting outs. We confirm the theory with an econometric assessment of 34 countries from 1970 to 2012. We discover smaller cycles in countries with a higher transparency, especially in G7-countries.
KW  - political cycles
KW  - transparency
KW  - e-governance
KW  - Google search
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-664
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-664
UR  - http://www.ipedr.com/vol82/001-ICBMG2014-C00009.pdf
SN  - 2010-4626
SS  - 2010-4626
IS  - 82
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
S1  - 8
PB  - IACSIT Press
CY  - Singapore
ER  -