• Title of article

    Are expectations on inflation and election outcomes connected? An empirical analysis

  • Author/Authors

    Michael Berlemann، نويسنده , , J?rg Elzemann، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    354
  • To page
    359
  • Abstract
    In this paper we study whether inflation expectations react on variations of election outcome expectations. Using data from 6 countries we show that such a link in fact exists and thus provides empirical evidence supportive to rational partisan theory of business cycles
  • Keywords
    Inflation expectations , Election outcome uncertainty , Political Business Cycles , Rational partisan theory
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    435943