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Peitz, Martin; Reisinger, Markus - CESifo - 2009

This paper analyzes the effects of specific and ad valorem taxation in an industry with downstream and upstream oligopoly. We find that in the short run, i.e. when the number of firms in both markets is exogenous, the results concerning tax incidence tend to be qualitatively similar to models...

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Input Versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - CESifo - 2003

This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an ‘international’ economy with a relatively small ‘home’ country and a large ‘foreign’ country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment...

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Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control: Theory and Evidence

Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - CESifo - 2011

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their …

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Knowledge is Power - A Theory of Information, Income, and Welfare Spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - CESifo - 2011

No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties to choose political...

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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2010

of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility …

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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - CESifo - 2011

Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...

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Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - CESifo - 2014

This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform’s initial success having a negative impact...

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Optimal Taxation under Regional Inequality

Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, Jens Malte - CESifo - 2014

Regional productivity differences provide scope for productivity-enhancing labor mobility. Redistribution reduces …, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how regional inequality and labor mobility affect optimal redistribution …

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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2015

the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market … processes and the income distribution after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of … ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that …

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Monetary Policy and Redistribution: What can or cannot be Neutralized with Mirrleesian Taxes

Gahvari, Firouz; Micheletto, Luca - CESifo - 2012

This paper develops an overlapping-generations model with heterogeneous agents in terms of earning ability and cash-in-advance constraint. It shows that tax policy cannot fully replicate or neutralize the redistributive implications of monetary policy. While who gets the extra money becomes...

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