Electoral Cycles in Food Prices: Evidence from India

• In Event: Politicians and Elections

Brief Overview

This paper provides the first systematic empirical investigation of electoral cycles in prices of essential food items in India and that role of trader-politician ties and informal strategies is key to understanding how incumbents induce such cycles.

Authors

• Aaditya Dar, World Bank

• Pranav Gupta, University of California, Berkeley

• Rahul Verma, University of California-Berkeley