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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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Equity and effectiveness of optimal taxation in contests under an all-pay auction

Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2012

The means of contest design may include differential taxation of the prize. This paper establishes that, given a … revenue-maximizing contest designer who faces a balanced-budget constraint, the optimal taxation scheme corresponding to an …. Furthermore, when a budget surplus is allowed, the superiority of optimal taxation under the APA is preserved in terms of equity …

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Mobility and conflict

Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - 2012

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the right to allocate societys resources, and we allow for costly intergroup mobility. The winning group offers an allocation, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and...

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How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy

Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - 2012

This paper shows why a majority of legislators may vote for a policy that benefits a firm but harms all legislators. The firm may induce legislators to support the policy by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representative support the policy. In...

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Differential prize taxation and structural discrimination in contests

Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2012

This paper evaluates differential prize taxation and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the …: the highest valuation of the contested prize. If a single mode of discrimination is allowed, then differential taxation is …

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The citizen-candidate model with imperfect policy control

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - 2012

We examine the two-candidate equilibria of the citizen-candidate model when the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: the distance between the...

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