• Do Re-Election Probabilities Influence Public Investment? 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Natvik, Gisle James (Working Papers;13/2009, Working paper, 2009)
      We identify exogenous variation in incumbent policymakers’ re-election probabilities and explore empirically how this variation affects the incumbents’ investment in physical capital. Our results indicate that a higher ...
    • The Political Economy of Fiscal Deficits and Government Production 

      Natvik, Gisle James (Working Papers;7/2009, Working paper, 2009)
      This paper analyzes a framework where policymakers decide how to spend public resources on physical capital and labor in order to produce two public goods. Candidate policymakers disagree about which goods to produce, and ...