Reelection: Deficits and Reelection
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Description
Usage
Format
Source
References
See Also
Description
yearly observations of 75 countries from 1960 to 2003
number of observations : 439
country : world
economic topic : public economics
econometrics topic : binomial response
Usage
1
Format
A dataframe containing :
- country
the country
- year
the year
- narrow
TRUE if the observation belongs to the narrow data set
- reelect
one if the incumbent was reelected and zero otherwise
- ddefterm
the change in the ratio of the government surplus to gdp in the two years preeceding the election year, relative to the two previous years
- ddefey
the change in the government surplus ratio to gdpin the election year, compared to the previous year
- gdppc
the average growth rate of real per capita gdp during the leader's current term
- dev
one for developped countries, 0 otherwise
- nd
one for a new democratic country, 0 otherwise
- maj
one for majoritarian electoral system, 0 otherwise
Source
american economic association's website http://www.aeaweb.org.
References
Adi Brender and Allan Drazen, (2008) “Budget deficits and economic growth affect reelection prospects? Evidence froma large panel of countries”, American Economic Review, 98(5), 2203-2220.
See Also
Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics
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Description Usage Format Source References See Also
Description
yearly observations of 75 countries from 1960 to 2003
number of observations : 439
country : world
economic topic : public economics
econometrics topic : binomial response
Usage
1 |
Format
A dataframe containing :
- country
the country
- year
the year
- narrow
TRUEif the observation belongs to the narrow data set- reelect
one if the incumbent was reelected and zero otherwise
- ddefterm
the change in the ratio of the government surplus to gdp in the two years preeceding the election year, relative to the two previous years
- ddefey
the change in the government surplus ratio to gdpin the election year, compared to the previous year
- gdppc
the average growth rate of real per capita gdp during the leader's current term
- dev
one for developped countries, 0 otherwise
- nd
one for a new democratic country, 0 otherwise
- maj
one for majoritarian electoral system, 0 otherwise
Source
american economic association's website http://www.aeaweb.org.
References
Adi Brender and Allan Drazen, (2008) “Budget deficits and economic growth affect reelection prospects? Evidence froma large panel of countries”, American Economic Review, 98(5), 2203-2220.
See Also
Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics
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