TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) 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 -