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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514172
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The n-dimensional Bailey-Divisia measure as a general-equilibrium measure of the welfare costs of inflation
Cysne, Rubens Penha - In: Economics letters 113 (2011) 2, pp. 99-102
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375627
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Time consistency, indexation and the costs of inflation
Mourmouras, Iannis A. - In: Economics letters 42 (1993) 4, pp. 361-365
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Empirical determinants of in-kind redistribution : Partisan biases and the role of inflation
Hessami, Zohal; Übelmesser, Silke - In: Economics letters 118 (2013) 2, pp. 318-320
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009708899
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781638
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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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The welfare cost of inflation in Canada and the United states
Serletis, Apostolos; Yavari, Kazem - In: Economics letters 84 (2004) 2, pp. 199-204
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002116228
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Welfare costs of inflation in a dynamic economy with search unemployment and endogenous growth
Heer, Burkhard - 2000
Recent work on money and endogenous growth finds modest welfare costs of inflation. Furthermore, high inflation reduces the growth rate. We present a monetary endogenous growth model with labor market frictions in the form of search unemployment which is calibrated for the US economy....
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Pure redistribution and the provision of public goods
Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: Economics letters 95 (2007) 3, pp. 334-338
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003476259
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Identity and redistribution: theory and evidence
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Manifold, Emma; Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2020
members of British political parties, for whom political identity is salient and redistribution is also likely to be salient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240327