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Are Expectations on Inflation and Election Outcomes Connected? An Empirical Analysis

Michael Berlemann (2006),
Economics Letters 91(3), 354-359.

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.