distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from … is that the nominal distribution of income could give a misleading picture of tensions in society, both within and across …

This Paper studies the role played by distribution costs in shaping the behaviour of the real exchange rate during … exchange-rate-based stabilizations. We document that distribution costs are very large for the average consumer good: the … represent more than 40% of the retail price in the US and 60% of the retail price in Argentina. Distribution services require …

The paper examines the welfare gains from North-South trade and their distribution. We construct an endogenous growth …

A democratic society in which the distribution of wealth is unequal elects political parties which tend to represent …

This paper analyses how political institutions, wealth distribution and economic activities affect each other during … played by the initial distribution of wealth in determining the long-run pattern of political participation and economic … performance. We show why one society may converge to an equilibrium with low distortions and social equality, while others may end …

size distributions of cities and countries are similar. But theories that explain the size-distribution of cities do not … obviously apply in explaining the size-distribution of countries. The similarity of city- and country-size distributions is an …

Efficient measures are often not implemented because of their potentially damaging effects on distribution, yet these … when we can separate the effect on efficiency from the effect on distribution, that is when Gorman aggregation applies, the … well-known result that aggregate effects can be computed independently of the distribution can be accompanied by a similar …