(How) Do Electoral Surprises Drive Business Cycles? Evidence from a New Dataset
In: CESifo Working Paper No. 10584
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In: CESifo Working Paper No. 10584
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In: Explorations in economic history: EEH, Band 86, S. 101471
ISSN: 0014-4983
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 15485
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Using a new data set of 207 national elections across 50 democracies, this paper is the first to systematically examine the effects of oil price shocks on incumbents' political fortunes in developed oil-importing countries. We find that oil price increases systematically lower the odds of reelection for incumbents and increase the likelihood of changes in the ideology of the incoming government. These shocks are found to operate through lowering consumption growth.
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This paper explores the dynamics of media chatter about economic reforms using text analysis from about a billion newspaper articles in 28 languages. The paper shows that the intensity of reform chatter increases during economic downturns. This increase is more significant in democracies. Using instrumental variable techniques, the analysis finds the relationship to be causal. The paper also documents that reform chatter is followed by actual reforms, suggesting that democracies benefit from a "self-correcting" mechanism stemming from changing popular attitudes toward reform.
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