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The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments

Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan; Kranich, Laurence - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

and the social contract in a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual self-esteem and relative es …

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Redistributive Taxation with Endogenous Sentiments

Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan Mª; Kranich, Laurence - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual attitudes toward others are endogenously determined …

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The Social Contracts with Endogenous Sentiments

Esteban, Joan; Kranich, Laurence - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

We present a model in which an individual's sentiments toward others are determined endogenously on the basis of how they perform relative to the societal average. This, in turn, affects the individual's own behavior and hence other agent's sentiments toward her. We focus on stationary patterns...

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Work Values, Endogenous Sentiments and Redistribution

Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan; Kranich, Laurence - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

voting over redistribution. Agents have moral work values. Individuals self-esteem and social consideration of others are …

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Parental altruism under imperfect information: theory and evidence

Villanueva, Ernesto - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

Understanding if altruism motivates intergenerational monetary transfers is crucial to assess the effectiveness of … public policies that redistribute income across generations. Previous works have rejected the altruism hypothesis. This paper … presents an altruism model that incorporates effort of the child and introduces imperfect information of parents about the …

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Fiscal policy, composition of intergenerational transfers, and income distribution

Alonso-Carrera, Jaime; Caballé, Jordi; Raurich, Xavier - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

In this paper, we characterize the relationship between the initial distribution of human capital and physical inheritances among individuals and the long-run distribution of these two variables. In a model with indivisible investment in education, we analyze how the initial distribution of...

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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth

Ponzetto, Giacomo; Troiano, Ugo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under- invest in education, whose...

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Shrouded Costs of Government: Political Economy of State and Local Public Pensions Data

Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

Why do public-sector workers receive so much of their compensation in the form of pensions and other benefits? This paper presents a political economy model in which politicians compete for taxpayers' ’and government employees' votes by promising compensation packages, but some voters cannot...

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Should Different People Have Different Governments?

Boffa, Federico; Piolatto, Amedeo; Ponzetto, Giacomo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015

The classic theory of fiscal federalism suggests that different people should have different governments. Yet, separate local governments with homogeneous constituents often end up doing poorly. This paper explains why and answers three questions: when regions are heterogeneous, what determines...

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An Agenda-Setting Model of Electoral Competition

Colomer, Josep M.; Llavador, Humberto - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008

government and a challenger party in opposition compete in elections by choosing the issues that will key out their campaigns …

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