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Political career of party reputational concerns?: determining how partisan effects matter for subnational fiscal discipline, evidence from Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
State governors copartisan with national presidents are known for greater fiscal discipline than those from opposition parties. Yet, scholars use two distinct mechanisms to explain this: some argue political career concerns ...
A rational partisan explanation for irrational (sub) sovereign debt behavior: evidence from municipal Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2014)
If investors and governments are rational, then governments with similar macro-economic characteristics should exhibit similarly balanced debt portfolios among financing instruments. Yet, anecdotal evidence suggests this ...