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Opportunistic Political Cycles: Test in a Young Democracy Setting
Akhmedov, Akhmed; Ravitchev, Alexei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
, empirical literature has found fairly weak evidence of opportunistic political cycles. This Paper tests the theory in a decade … sizable and short-lived on average; (2) the magnitude of opportunistic cycles decreases with voters' rationality and awareness … incumbent governors. Our results confirm that maturity of democracy as well as rationality and awareness of the electorate are …
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Who benefits from combined tax and public expenditure policies in Cameroon
Johannes, Tabi Atemnkeng; Etoh-Anzah, Peter Angyie; … - In: Journal of Developing Areas 43 (2009) 1, pp. 1-23
minimal in the rural areas where poverty is high and inequality actually increased between 1996 and 2001. …
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Restoring Japan's Fiscal Sustainability
Jones, Randall S.; Urasawa, Satoshi - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
credit, to prevent a rise in inequality and poverty. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of Japan …
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Joint determinants of fiscal policy, income inequality and economic growth
Muinelo-Gallo, Leonel; Roca-Sagalés, Oriol - In: Economic Modelling 30 (2013) C, pp. 814-824
This paper analyses the relationship between income inequality and economic growth through fiscal policy. To this end …, we present and estimate two systems of structural equations with error components through which gross income inequality … inequality. …
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Simulating inequality and social order in the classroom: A macroeconomic game
Kemp, Thomas; Wunder, Tim - In: Review of Social Economy 65 (2007) 4, pp. 425-443
Actual economic activity often is too large or abstract for students of economics to understand. It has been the experience of the authors that when the economy is explained in terms of an autonomous classroom, students better understand that the economy is about the social process of...
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The Effects of Brazil’s Taxation and Social Spending on the Distribution of Household Income
Higgins, Sean; Pereira, Claudiney - In: Public Finance Review 42 (2014) 3, pp. 346-367
portion of direct transfer beneficiaries are nonpoor. As a result, inequality and poverty reduction are low relative to …
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Inflation and Inequality
Albanesi, Stefania - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Cross-country evidence on inflation and inequality suggests that they are positively correlated. I explore the …
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The origins of the Gini index: extracts from Variabilità e Mutabilità (1912) by Corrado Gini
Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 10 (2012) 3, pp. 421-443
The scope of this paper is to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Gini index by providing the original formulae. Corrado Gini introduced his index for the first time in a 1912 book published in Italian under the name of “Variabilità e Mutabilità” (Variability and Mutability). This...
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Selfishness and altruism in the distribution of travel time and income
Tilahun, Nebiyou; Levinson, David - In: Transportation 40 (2013) 5, pp. 1043-1061
Most economic models assume that individuals act out their preferences based on self-interest alone. However, there have also been other paradigms in economics that aim to capture aspects of behavior that include fairness, reciprocity, and altruism. In this study we empirically examine...
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On the parameters of Zenga distribution
Arcagni, Alberto; Porro, Francesco - In: Statistical Methods and Applications 22 (2013) 3, pp. 285-303
interpretation of the parameters in terms of inequality. The scale parameter μ is equal to the expectation, and it does not affect … the inequality, while the two shape parameters α and θ are inverse and direct inequality indicators respectively. This … result is obtained through stochastic orders based on inequality curves. A procedure to generate a random sample from Zenga …
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