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Does the Winner Take it All? Redistributive Policies and Political Extremism

Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020

We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …

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Voting Advice Applications and Elections

Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino; Schelker, Mark; Schmid, … - 2021

We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information with aggregate real world data because smartvote was...

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Judiciaries in Corrupt Societies

Priks, Mikael - 2021

Recent empirical work shows that judicial dependence can explain high levels of corruption. This paper examines how the dependence of judiciaries influences corruption at different levels of the government in a model where the central government, low-level officials, and the judiciary are...

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Optimal Redistributive Wealth Taxation When Wealth is More than Just Capital

Franks, Max - 2020

We show how normative standpoints determine optimal taxation of wealth. Since wealth is not equal to capital, we find very different welfare implications of land rent-, bequest- and capital taxation. It is mainly land rents that should be taxed. We develop an overlapping generations model with...

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Prosociality, Political Identity, and Redistribution of Earned Income : Theory and Evidence

Dhami, Sanjit - 2018

that the choices of the proposers and the responders are consistent with social identity theory (higher offers and lower …

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Redistribution Through Income Taxation and Public Utility Pricing in the Presence of Energy Efficiency Considerations

Feger, Fabian - 2018

, the effectiveness of the electricity tariff as a redistribution device is questionable in the presence of a progressive … model predicts that electricity prices should be subsidised in the presence of purely income redistribution concerns, we … conservation as well as income redistribution …

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Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019

Income equality and trust seem to go along with several other ingredients of social capital as determinants of economic growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank and by The Standardized World Income Inequality...

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Congestion in the Electricity Transmission System Redistributes Pollution Across Long Distances

Johnson, Erik - 2020

Electricity transmission redistributes environmental impacts across space. We exploit episodes of high electricity transmission system congestion to explore changes in ambient concentrations of air pollutants in the eastern United States. Reducing electricity system congestion decreases ozone...

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Does Progressivity Always Lead to Progress? The Impact of Local Redistribution on Tax Manipulation

Giommoni, Tommaso - 2019

The goal of this paper is to study the effects of introducing income redistribution at the municipal level, with the … decentralizing income redistribution as it may lead to consistent tax manipulation and large distortions in fiscal policy …

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