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Unequal Societies
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
redistributions decreases with the degree of inequality, at least over some range. Moreover, capital market imperfections make future … high inequality and low redistribution, or vice versa. Temporary shocks to the distribution of income or the political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792191
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Inequality and Growth
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
’ rent-seeking abilities, as well as with the gap between rich and poor. It is not income inequality per se that matters …, however, but inequality in the relative distribution of earning and political power. For each of the three channels of …-country differences in inequality permanent, or gradually narrowing? Equivalently, is there convergence not just in the first moment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123982
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How Large Are the Effects of Tax Changes?
Favero, Carlo A.; Giavazzi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We use the time series of shifts in U.S. Federal tax liabilities constructed by Romer and Romer to estimate tax multipliers. Differently from the single-equation approach adopted by Romer and Romer, our estimation strategy (a Var that includes output, government spending and revenues, inflation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082536
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Country Heterogeneity and the International Evidence on the Effects of Fiscal Policy
Favero, Carlo A.; Giavazzi, Francesco; Perego, Jacopo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper shows how the richer frequency and variety of fiscal policy shocks available in an international sample can be analyzed recognizing the heterogeneity that exists across different countries. The main conclusion of our empirical analysis is that the question 'what is the fiscal policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201121
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Reconciling VAR-based and Narrative Measures of the Tax-Multiplier
Favero, Carlo A.; Giavazzi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The currently available empirical evidence shows remarkable differences between various estimates of the effects on U.S. output of an exogenous shift in Federal tax liabilities. Shocks identified via the narrative method imply a multiplier of about three over an horizon of three years. Tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468626
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Debt and the Effects of Fiscal Policy
Favero, Carlo A.; Giavazzi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
A shift in taxes or in government spending (a ”fiscal shock”) at some point in time puts a constraint on the path of taxes and spending in the future, since the government intertemporal budget constraint will eventually have to be met. This simple fact is surprisingly overlooked in analyses...
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Public Saving and Policy Coordination in Ageing Economies
Flodén, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
In the coming decades, the share of people in working age will fall significantly in most developed countries. According to optimal taxation theory, public debts should be reduced before the baby-boom generation retires. I find that if debts are instead maintained at the current levels, welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497919
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Sovereign Debt and Structural Reforms
Müller, Andreas; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Motivated the European debt crisis, we construct a tractable theory of sovereign debt and structural reforms under limited commitment. The government of a sovereign country which has fallen into a recession of an uncertain duration issues one-period debt and can renege on its obligations by...
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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321839
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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State
Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women’s disenfranchisement carries a societal cost. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067632