Essays in political economy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Essay One, the rational partisan business cycle (RPBC) theory is tested in three ways. First, using U.S. real output data for the period 1880-1948. It is found that the theory is not rejected for the period 1914-1948. Second, by exploiting the implications of the theory for the term structure of interest rates. Post-WW2 U.S. data on interest rates is found to be in conformity with the RPBC hypothesis. Third, the theory is extended to encompass the case of nations which have variable inter-election periods, and is successfully tested using output data for Canada and the United Kingdom.\nIn Essay Two, empirical evidence on a number of political theories of public debt determination is presented. First, it is shown that during the Great Depression, budget deficit persistence was more marked in nations with coalition governments, in accord with the power dispersal theory. Second, Granger-prediction tests are used to test whether large deficits predict future government spending in a sample of industrialized democracies. Finally, a pooled cross-section time series regression analysis reconfirms previous findings that power dispersal is a factor in explaining post-1973 budget deficit persistence in a number of countries but it is also found that the degree of central bank independence is a significant influence.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".