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A Lipsetian theory of democratization : development, education, inequality, and resources
Boucekkine, Raouf; Piacquadio, Paolo G.; Prieur, Fabien - 2016
The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that …-market aspirations - and forces the elite to expand redistribution. Along the lines of this trade-off, our theory provides a Lipsetian … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587539
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Political capitalism : the interaction between income inequality, economic freedom and democracy
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2015
In this contribution we study the relationship between income inequality and economic freedom for a panel of 100 countries for the 1971-2010 period. From a panel causality study we find that income inequality has a negative causal effect on economic freedom, while causation does not run in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411131
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Policy coordination under model disagreement and uncertainty
Hefeker, Carsten; Neugart, Michael - 2019
What are the incentives for governments to coordinate their policies internationally when there is model disagreement and uncertainty? We build a model where countries disagree on policy targets and how policies affect the economies, and show that uncertainty not only determines the type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966668
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The political economy of the standard level of services : the role of income distribution
Fiorillo, Fabio; Sacchi, Agnese - 2012
The theory of fiscal federalism points out that decentralisation should be pursued in order to fit differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489053
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How do governments fare about redistribution? : new evidence on the political economy of redistribution
Padovano, Fabio; Scervini, Francesco; Turati, Gilberto - 2016 - This version: September 2016
We examine whether and to what extent political institutions explain different performances in income redistribution across countries. In particular, we first review available sources of data and measures of income redistribution, discussing the pros and cons of each one. Second, we outline a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011549384
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Large losses from little lies : randomly assigned opportunity to misrepresent substantially lowers later cooperation and worsens income inequality
Drouvelis, Michalis; Gerson, Jennifer; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020
Social media has made anonymized behavior online a prevalent part of many people's daily interactions. The implications of this new ability to hide one's identity information remain imperfectly understood. Might it be corrosive to human cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288025
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On the modeling of the income distribution business cycle dynamics
Heer, Burkhard (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496643
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015
We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397182
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The nature of conflict
Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2015
This research establishes that the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrastate conflicts in the modern era reflect the long shadow of prehistory. Exploiting variations across national populations, it demonstrates that genetic diversity, as determined predominantly during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309623
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Income redistribution in open economies : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy, May 2015
Tóbiás, Áron - 2015
I propose a model of income redistribution in an open-economy environment. The world consists of a finite number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528950