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Read my lips : the political economy of information transmission

Besley, Timothy; Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

The paper studies credible information transmission by governments. A group of heterogenous individuals have to make private investment and labour supply decisions while relying on the government for information about investment returns. The government consists of an elected citizen who chooses...

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Making autocracy work

Besley, Timothy; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simple theoretical model of...

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Commodity taxation and social welfare: the generalised Ramsey rule

Coady, David; Dreze, Jean - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Commodity taxes have three distinct roles: (1) revenue collection, (2) interpersonal redistribution, and (3) resource …

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The economic implications of house price capitalization: a synthesis

Hilber, Christian A. L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

In this article I argue that the extent to which fiscal variables are capitalized into house prices has important economic implications. I synthesize an emerging literature that explores the conditions under which public and private investments and intergovernmental transfers are capitalized...

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Public education for the minority, private education for the majority

Levy, Gilat - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Public provision of private goods such as education is usually viewed as a form of redistribution in kind. However …, does it arise when income redistribution is feasible as well? In this paper I analyse a two-dimensional model of political … decision making. Society has to choose both the tax rate and the allocation of the revenues between income redistribution and …

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Spend it like Beckham? Inequality and redistribution in the UK, 1983-2004

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly … exogenous rise in income inequality has not been associated with increased redistribution. We then explore this further using … attitudinal data. We show that the demand for redistribution, having shown considerable variation over time, is at an all-time low …

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Do rural banks matter? evidence from the Indian social banking experiment

Burgess, Robin; Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Lack of access to finance is often cited as a key reason why poor people remain poor. This paper uses data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirial evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian Central Bank mandated that a commercial bank can open a branch in...

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Crisis Social Policy and Social Justice: the case for Greece

Venieris, Dimitris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

; redistribution of resources and nurturing communitarian values. …

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Perceptions of redistribution: report on exploratory qualitative research

Hedges, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

redistributive effects of taxation and public spending in the UK. Redistribution is not at the top of people’s minds when they …

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The economics implications of house price capitalization a survey of an emerging literature

Hilber, Christian A. L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

House price capitalization – the adjustment of house prices to changes in local public service and tax levels – has long been thought to be a means of testing for efficiency in the local public sector. In this article I argue that the extent of house price capitalization itself may have...

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