Presidents and the US Economy: An Econometric Exploration

The US economy has performed better when the president of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican, almost regardless of how one measures performance. For many measures, including real GDP growth (our focus), the performance gap is large and significant This paper asks why. The answe...

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Published in:The American economic review 2016-04, Vol.106 (4), p.1015-1045
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Political parties
Presidency
Presidential elections
Productivity
Statistical analysis
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