Do national political parties matter? Evidence from Italian municipalities

M Gamalerio - European Journal of Political Economy, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently several countries have experienced a drop in popularity of national political
parties, accompanied by the success of independent movements (eg “Civic Lists” in Italy). I …

[图书][B] Government spending and economic activity: Regression discontinuity evidence from voting on renewals of tax levies

DM Brasington, M Zachariadis - 2020 - papers.econ.ucy.ac.cy
We estimate the impact of plausibly exogenous changes in taxes and government spending
on income by utilizing regional data and a regression discontinuity design. More specifically …

[图书][B] Fiscal policy and economic activity: New causal evidence

DM Brasington, M Zachariadis - 2022 - papers.econ.ucy.ac.cy
We identify an exogenous cut in local taxes accompanied by an equivalent reduction in local
government spending, and estimate the impact of these exogenous changes on income by …