Political Business Cycle Theory

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A framework explaining that incumbents manipulate fiscal and monetary policy to make the economy look good before elections, modeled as a signaling game in which voters partly see through the manipulation but still reward it; an extension explains chronic debt accumulation through partisan ratcheting.

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