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Equality, equity and incentives: An experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - In: European Economic Review 60 (2013) C, pp. 32-51

We study a fundamental conflict in economic decision-making, the trade-off between equality, equity and incentives, in a new experimental game that nests a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. In a 2×2 design, we let subjects either vote on or...

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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...

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Envy, guilt, and the Phillips curve

Ahrens, Steffen; Snower, Dennis J. - 2012

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An experimental test of the public goods crowding out hypothesis when taxation is endogenous

Sutter, Matthias; Weck-Hannemann, Hannelore - In: FinanzArchiv : European journal of public finance 60 (2004) 1, pp. 94 - 110

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Party Discipline and Pork Barrel Politics

Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

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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...

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Separation of Powers and the Budget Process

Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts … current welfare state systems – where welfare services are financed predominantly out of general taxes – people would make … ongoing, mandatory contributions to each of these welfare accounts. The balances in these accounts would cover people’s major …

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Inequality of Earnings

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally,...

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Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 319-330

We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...

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