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Party Discipline and Pork-Barrel Politics
Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Polities differ in the extent to which political parties can pre-commit to carry out promised policy actions if they take power. Commitment problems may arise due to a divergence between the ex ante incentives facing national parties that seek to capture control of the legislature and the ex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136600
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A note on public goods in a decentralized fiscal union: Implications of a participation constraint
Aronsson, Thomas; Micheletto, Luca; Sjögren, Tomas - In: Journal of Urban Economics 84 (2014) C, pp. 1-8
This paper re-examines the question of whether federal ex-post redistribution in terms of public funds leads to under-provision of public goods when member states may leave the economic federation. We show that federal ex-post redistribution under a binding participation constraint does not...
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Income taxation, commodity taxation and provision of public goods under labor market distortions
Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - In: FinanzArchiv : European journal of public finance 59 (2002/2003) 3, pp. 347-370
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State-variable public goods and social comparisons
Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 68 (2014) 2, pp. 390-410
The optimal provision of a state-variable public good, where the global climate is the prime example, is analyzed in a model where people care about their relative consumption. We consider both keeping-up-with-the-Joneses preferences (where people compare their own current consumption with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939572
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Party Discipline and Pork Barrel Politics
Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Polities differ in the extent to which political parties can pre-commit to carry out promised policy actions if they take power. Commitment problems may arise due to a divergence between the ex ante incentives facing national parties that seek to capture control of the legislature and the ex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084615
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Separation of Powers and the Budget Process
Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We study budget formation in a model featuring separation of powers. In our model, the legislature designs a budget bill that can include a cap on total spending and earmarked allocations to designated public projects. Each project provides random benefits to one of many interest groups. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050203
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International Environmental Policy Reforms, Tax Distortions, and the Labor Market
Aronsson, Thomas; Jonsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 62 (2006) 2, pp. 199-217
This paper concerns the welfare consequences of environmental policy cooperation in a two-country economy. We assume … competition in the labor market. The purpose is to characterize the welfare effect of a policy reform, where the countries agree … to slightly increase their expenditures on abatement. We show how the welfare effect of the policy reform depends on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005582180
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Separation of Powers and the Budget Process
Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We study budget formation in a model featuring separation of powers. In our model, the legislature designs a budget bill that can include a cap on total spending and earmarked allocations to designated public projects. Each project provides random benefits to one of many interest groups. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791745
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Quasi-hyperbolic discounting, paternalism and optimal mixed taxation
Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - In: Mathematical social sciences 84 (2016), pp. 24-36
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Welfare measurement in imperfect markets : a growth theoretical approach
Aronsson, Thomas; Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf; Backlund, Kenneth - 2004
This book cleverly integrates the research on welfare measurement and social accounting in imperfect market economies …. In their previously acclaimed volume, Welfare Measurement, Sustainability and Green National Accounting, the authors …1. Introduction -- 2. Our workhorse : the Brock model -- 3. A money-metrics version of Weitzman's welfare theorem -- 4 …
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