...Abdul Ganiyu Iddrisu; Godfred A. Bokpin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand both the incidence and the impact of the African political business cycle (PBC) in the light of a literature which has argued that, with major extensions of democracy since the 1990s, the cycle has both...

... Limited 2012 United States of America Monetary policy Politics Macroeconomics Employment Federal Open Market Committee Taylor rule Forecasting bias Political business cycle There exists a strand of literature documenting the difference in the two US political parties' emphasis...