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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584951
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582083
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306855
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425550
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315143
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Policy Deviations, Uncertainty, and the European Court of Justice
Hefeker, Carsten; Neugart, Michael - 2013
The implementation of European Union directives into national law is at the discretion of member states. We analyze incentives for member states to deviate from these directives when the European Commission may sue a defecting member state and rulings at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) are...
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Divided We Reform? Evidence from US Welfare Policies
Bernecker, Andreas - 2014
Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328759
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Immunity
Reddy, Karthik; Schularick, Moritz; Skreta, Vasiliki - 2013
Legal provisions that protect politicians from arrest and prosecution exist throughout much of the modern democratic world. Why, and with what effects, do societies choose to place their politicians above the law? We examine the institution of immunity both theoretically and empirically. Our...
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Decentralization, Vertical Fiscal Imbalance, and Political Selection
Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - 2013
In a career-concern model of politics with endogenous candidacy and different types of politicians, following a decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of autonomous resources. As an effect, consumer welfare...
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Direct and Structural Discrimination in Contests
Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2013
This paper evaluates direct and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the contestants' prize...
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