NBER Macroeconomics Annual

Статья вышла через 25 лет после публикации Нордхауза (W. Nordhaus "The Political Business Cycle." Review of Economic Studies 1975 Vol. 42: 169-189.), в которой была предложена первая модель монетарного политико-делового цикла. Аллан Дрейзен дает обзор теорий политико-деловых циклов и эмпирических проверок, возникших за последние 25 лет. Автор предлагает и тестирует собственную модель цикла, включающую фискальную и денежную политики в рамках модели AFPM (active fiscal-passive monetary). Research on the political business cycle since the mid-1970s is surveyed and assessed. We argue that models based on monetary surprises as the driving force are unconvincing explanations of either opportunistic or partisan cycles. Research should concentrate on fiscal policy as the driving force, with monetary effects being the result of accommodation of fiscal impulses. We present a model political business cycle model that combines active fiscal policy and passive monetary policy (which we term the AFPM model), which addresses a number of objections to earlier models, We present some empirical tests supportive of this model.