Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 87
Cover Image
Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2009
This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583713
Cover Image
Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406400
Cover Image
Coordinating Climate and Trade Policies: Pareto Efficiency and the Role of Border Tax Adjustments
Keen, Michael; Kotsogiannis, Christos - CESifo - 2011
This paper explores the role of trade instruments in globally efficient climate policies, focusing on the central issue of whether border tax adjustment (BTA) is warranted when carbon prices differ internationally. It shows that tariff policy has a role in easing cross-country distributional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147741
Cover Image
(Re-)Distribution of Personal Incomes, Education and Economic Performance Across Countries
Rehme, Günther - CESifo - 2002
In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405824
Cover Image
Does Liberté = Egalité? A Survey of the Empirical Evidence on the Links between Political Democracy and Income Inequality
Gradstein, Mark; Milanovic, Branko - CESifo - 2000
typically led to an expansion in redistribution, at least in the small sample of episodes studied. Similarly, and more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405913
Cover Image
Anarchy, Efficiency, and Redistribution
Bös, Dieter; Kolmar, Martin - CESifo - 2000
The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first develop a contractarian theory of redistribution. The existence of rules … of redistribution is explained without any recourse to the risk-aversion of individuals. Hence, we depart from the … standard legitimization of redistribution as fundamental insurance and interpret it as stemming from a principle of reciprocity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406042
Cover Image
Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - CESifo - 2008
challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … improving by using a redistributive linear income tax if redistribution is initially not too large. We finally derive the … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406211
Cover Image
Monopoly, Inequality and Redistribution via the Public Provision of Private Goods
Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2004
The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406280
Cover Image
Income Taxes, Property Values, and Migration
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2003
We consider taxation by a Leviathan government and by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country, when migration from one country to another is and is not possible. In a closed economy, a utilitarian government may transfer income from the poor to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406374
Cover Image
Strategic Campaigns and Redistributive Politics
Schultz, Christian - CESifo - 2003
The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties fabor special groups. The parties will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406383