Sergio Bejar
San Jose State University
14 Papers
21 Citations
Sergio Bejar is an academic researcher from San Jose State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bayesian probability & Government spending. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 12 publications. Previous affiliations of Sergio Bejar include Florida State University & University of Texas at Austin.
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Papers
Electoral institutions and growth volatility: Theory and evidence
Sergio Bejar,Bumba Mukherjee +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors claim that institutional differences between the majoritarian and proportional representation electoral systems explain why growth volatility is high in some democracies, but not others, and suggest that unlike PR democracies, the pronounced career concerns of policymakers in majoritarian systems give them incentives to use their discretionary spending power to alter government spending levels sharply, which generates higher spending volatility in these countries.
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Electoral volatility and political polarization in developing democracies: Evidence from Latin America, 1993–2016
Juan Andrés Moraes,Sergio Bejar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors claim that increasing levels of electoral volatility generate high levels of uncertainty among partisan elites, which respond by setting clear policy positions that are frequently far away from the center in the ideological spectrum.
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Candidate-centred systems, public banks and equity market restrictions in developing democracies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that candidates in candidate-centred developing democracies will increase equity market restrictions in response to pressure from market concentrated public sector banks, and claim that highly market- concentrated public banks ha...
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Time Horizons Matter: Coalition Governments, Replacement Risk and the Size of Government in 96 Countries, 1975-2000
TL;DR: This article examined how coalition governments affect the size of government, measured by total central government expenditure as a share of GDP, and found that coalition governments have shorter time horizons than single party governments and use that finding to motivate a model which shows that coalition government has greater incentives to increase government spending.
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IDCeMPy: Python Package for Inflated Discrete Choice Models
TL;DR: Inflated discrete choice models have been developed to address category inflation in ordered and unordered polytomous outcome variables as failing to do so leads to model misspecification and incorrect inferences.