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Information, polarization and delegation in democracy
Schultz, Christian - 2003
This paper investigates the merits of different democratic institutions when politics is uni-dimensional, there is … have better information about the state of the world than voters. Three types of institutions are compared: direct …
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Women's voice on redistribution : from gender norms to taxation
Bozzano, Monica; Profeta, Paola; Puglisi, Riccardo; … - 2021
influence preferences for redistribution and public policies. We consider both cross-country and individual level evidence on … are significantly larger. This effect is driven by women becoming systematically more favorable to redistribution, while … redistribution among left-leaning citizens, while this difference is significant among moderates in the expected direction …
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Pay-what-you-want to support independent information : a field experiment on motivation
Casarico, Alessandra; Tonin, Mirco - 2018
Pay-what-you-want schemes can be a useful tool to finance high quality and independent news media without restricting readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce.info to explore how to structure a campaign in a way...
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Making judges independent : some proposals regarding the judiciary
Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2004
It is argued that an independent judiciary is a necessary condition for both individual liberty and economic prosperity. After having surveyed the literature dealing with how to arrange for an independent judiciary, the authors derive some additional policy implications by drawing on two...
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Are world leaders loss averse?
Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We focus on the preferences of an extremely salient group of highly-experienced individuals who are entrusted with making decisions that affect the lives of millions of their citizens, heads of government. We test for the presence of a fundamental behavioral bias, loss aversion, in the way heads...
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Industrialisation and the Big Push in a global economy
Kreickemeier, Udo; Wrona, Jens - 2017
In their famous paper on the "Big Push", Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny (1989) show how the combination of increasing returns to scale at the firm level and pecuniary externalities can give rise to a poverty trap, thereby formalising an old idea due to Rosenstein-Rodan (1943). We develop in this...
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Responsibility and redistribution : the case of first best taxation
Tungodden, Bertil - 2001
It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors within our control are partly determined by factors beyond our control. In this paper, we suggest that one plausible view is to keep us responsible for the parts of the...
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 2015
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …
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Normative analysis with societal constraints
Boadway, Robin W.; Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - 2013
This paper examines the question of achieving a societal consensus around redistributive policies. Its extent is measured by the degree of work participation among the different skill classes that populate the economy. This consensus is driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous...
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Human capital mobility : implications for efficiency, income distribution, and policy
Wildasin, David E. - 2014
Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...
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