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Strategic campaigns and redistributive politics

Schultz, Christian - 2003

The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties fabor special groups. The parties will...

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Closed-form integrated assessment and uncertainty

Traeger, Christian - 2015

The paper derives the optimal carbon tax in closed-form from an integrated assessment of climate change. The formula shows how carbon, temperature, and economic dynamics quantify the optimal mitigation effort. The model's descriptive power is comparable to numeric models used in policy advising....

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The social cost of carbon with intragenerational inequality under economic uncertainty

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, … - 2022

A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...

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Redistribution and occupational choice in a Schumpeterian growth model

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia (contributor); … - 2004

context, we examine the impact of redistributive taxation and compute socially optimal tax rates. Redistribution acts as …

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Dissecting inequality-averse preferences

Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdín, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; … - 2021

Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...

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Anarchy, efficiency, and redistribution

Bös, Dieter; Kolmar, Martin - 2000

The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first develop a contractarian theory of redistribution. The existence of rules … of redistribution is explained without any recourse to the risk-aversion of individuals. Hence, we depart from the … standard legitimization of redistribution as fundamental insurance and interpret it as stemming from a principle of reciprocity …

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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling

Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2017

Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...

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