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Rothschild, Casey G. - 2014

We develop a framework for optimal taxation when agents can earn their income both in traditional activities, where private and social products coincide, and in rent-seeking activities, where private returns exceed social returns either because they involve the capture of pre-existing rents or...

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Factor Income Distribution and Endogenous Economic Growth - When Piketty Meets Romer

Irmen, Andreas - 2017

We scrutinize Thomas Piketty's (2014) theory concerning the relationship between an economy's long-run growth rate, its … of Piketty's Second Fundamental Law of Capitalism does not hold. In line with Piketty's theory a smaller long-run growth …, both the economy's savings rate and its growth rate are endogenous variables whereas in Piketty's theory they are both …

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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality : An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence

Campos, Nauro - 2018

This paper provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between structural...

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Discounting, Inequalities and Economic Convergence

Gollier, Christian - 2013

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of inequalities and economic convergence on the efficient discount rate, in the absence of any risk-sharing scheme. We consider an economy in which the initial consumption level and the distribution of consumption growth are heterogeneous. The...

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Does Public Education Expansion Lead to Trickle-Down Growth?

Böhm, Sebastian - 2014

The paper revisits the debate on trickle-down growth in view of the widely discussed evolution of the earnings and income distribution that followed a massive public expansion of higher education. We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model to dynamically evaluate whether economic growth...

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Adverse Effects of Ultra-Loose Monetary Policies on Investment, Growth and Income Distribution

Hoffmann, Andreas - 2016

The paper analyses adverse investment, growth and distributional effects of ultra-loose monetary policies based on the monetary overinvestment theories of Hayek and Mises. We argue that ultra-loose monetary policies create incentives to substitute real investment by financial investment. When...

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Social Polarization and Partisan Voting in Representative Democracies

Duell, Dominik - 2018

While scholars and pundits alike have expressed concern regarding increasing social polarization based on partisan identity, there has been little analysis of how social polarization impacts voting. In this paper, we incorporate social identity into a principal-agent model of political...

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Democratic Redistribution and Rule of the Majority

Corneo, Giacomo - 2015

Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on survey data that needs not assume that voters are guided by pecuniary motives alone. We find that most democracies implement the median voter's preferred amount of redistribution...

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The Citizen-Candidate Model with Imperfect Policy Control

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - 2021

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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Terrorism Prevention and Electoral Accountability

Dragu, Tiberiu; Polborn, Mattias - 2021

How does electoral accountability affect the effectiveness of terrorism prevention in a democracy? We analyze the connection between electoral accountability and policy effectiveness in the context of terrorism prevention. We develop a formal model of an interaction between a government, a...

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