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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 …

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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...

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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...

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Globalization, redistribution, and the composition of public education expenditures

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2010

We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments from the Heckscher-Ohlin and the tax competition literature into a common theoretical framework. The model suggests that with increasing global integration, developing countries...

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On the modeling of the income distribution business cycle dynamics

Heer, Burkhard (contributor) - 2007

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Tax rate and tax base competition for foreign direct investment

Egger, Peter; Raff, Horst - 2011

This paper argues that the large reduction in corporate tax rates and only gradual widening of tax bases in many countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To make this point we develop a model in which governments...

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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Persistence of high income inequality and banking crises : 1980-2010

Bellettini, Giorgio; Delbono, Flavio - 2013

Differently from Atkinson and Morelli (2011) who detect no clear link between increases in income inequality and systemic banking crises, we show that a large majority of crises occurred between 1982 and 2008 have been preceded by persistently high levels of income inequality. Such association...

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