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The Political Economy of Taxation: Power, Structure, Redistribution

Winer, Stanley L. - 2016

In this chapter I provide an overview of the political economy of taxation in democratic states by considering the … democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …

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Your Place in the World - Relative Income and Global Inequality

Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021

There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of...

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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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Austerity and Distributional Policy

Alpino, Matteo; Asatryan, Zareh; Blesse, Sebastian; … - 2020

What are the eﬀects of austerity on distributional policy? We exploit the autonomy of Italian municipalities in setting non-linear income taxes and the exogenous introduction of a ﬁscal rule to show that austerity increases tax progressivity. Consistent with this evidence, we ﬁnd that in a...

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Austerity and Distributional Policy

Alpino, Matteo; Asatryan, Zareh; Blesse, Sebastian; … - 2021

What are the effects of austerity on distributional policy? We exploit the autonomy of Italian municipalities in setting non-linear income taxes and the exogenous introduction of a fiscal rule to show that austerity increases tax progressivity. Consistent with this evidence, we find that in a...

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Fact-Checking Politicians

Mattozzi, Andrea; Nocito, Samuel; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2022

We investigate the reaction of Italian Members of Parliament to a rigorous fact-checking of their public statements. Our research design relies on a novel randomized field experiment in collaboration with the leading Italian fact-checking company. Our results show that politicians are responsive...

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Whose Preferences Matter for Redistribution: Cross-Country Evidence

Maréchal, Michel André; Cohn, Alain; Yusof, Jeffrey; … - 2023

redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens. …

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Searching for Keynes: An Essay on the Political Economy of Fiscal Policy, with Application to Canada, 1870-2000 - revised version

Winer, Stanley L.; Ferris, J Stephen - 2003

Keynes' General Theory (1936) is arguably one of the most important books of the twentieth century. His ideas for stabilizing the aggregate economy have profoundly influenced economic theory as well as popular opinion about what governments can and should do with respect to the business cycle....

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Evidence on the Political Principal-Agent Problem from Voting on Public Finance for Concert Halls

Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

Principal-agent problems can arise when preferences of voters are not aligned with preferences of political representatives. Often the consequence of the political principal-agent problem is political catering to special interests. In this paper I provide examples of principal-agent problems...

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Who’s Afraid of Policy Experiments?

Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Prottung, Paul; Ricci, Benedetta - 2024

In many public policy areas, randomized policy experiments can greatly contribute to our knowledge of the effects of policies and can thus help to improve public policy. However, policy experiments are not very common. This paper studies whether a lack of appreciation for policy experiments...

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