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Democratic Redistribution and Rule of the Majority

Corneo, Giacomo; Neher, Frank - CESifo - 2014

Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on survey data that needs not assume that voters are guided by pecuniary motives alone. We find that most democracies implement the median voter’s preferred amount of...

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Probabilistic Procurement Auctions

Giebe, Thomas; Schweinzer, Paul - CESifo - 2013

We analyse procurement auctions in which sellers are distinguished on the basis of the ratios of quality per unit of money that they offer. Sellers are privately informed on the offered quality of the technology or good. We assume that the procurer cannot perfectly identify the best offer. Thus,...

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Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938

Aidt, Toke; Jensen, Peter S. - CESifo - 2011

This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson [Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, 1167-1199, 2000]. We approximate the threat of revolution in a given country by revolutionary events...

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An Economic Theory of Foreign Interventions and Regime Change

Bonfatti, Roberto - CESifo - 2011

I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which the preferences of the foreign country over alternative local groups are determined by each group's international economic ties. In equilibrium, the foreign country supports the group with which it has the strongest ties, since this is most...

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General Equilibrium with Multi-Member Households and Production

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2011

We consider firms and multi-member households operating in a competitive market environment. Households are endowed with resources (commodity bundles) and shares of firm ownership. Household members are characterized by individual preferences, possibly with intra-household consumption...

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Democracy, Inequality and the Environment when Citizens can Mitigate Privately or Act Collectively

Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2010

inequality and the degree to which ordinary citizens exert voice in each dimension of the policy process distinguishes elites and … private mitigation is feasible, inequality of incomes leads to an unequal distribution of the health burden of pollution (in … and elites in non-democratic regimes. Inequality in the willingness to bear the cost of private mitigation in turn …

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Transfers within a three Generations Family: When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - CESifo - 2014

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each...

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The Value of Technology Improvements in Games with Externalities: A Fresh Look at Offsetting Behavior

Hoy, Michael; Polborn, Mattias - CESifo - 2014

How should we evaluate the welfare implications of improvements to safety technologies in the presence of offsetting behavior? We model this problem as a symmetric game in which each player’s payoff depends on his own action and the average action of the other players, and analyze under which...

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Direct and Structural Discrimination in Contests

Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - CESifo - 2013

This paper evaluates direct and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the contestants’ prize...

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Negative Campaigning in a Probabilistic Voting Model

Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Kangoh - CESifo - 2013

This paper extends the small existing theoretical literature on negative campaigning, building on work by Harrington and Hess (1996). While their analysis explores the determinants of negative campaign spending using a classic spatial voting model, this paper relies instead on a probabilistic...

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