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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy

Vindigni, Andrea - 2024

political power at the expenses of the median voter. In particular, investments in lobbying activities allow the rich to obtain … variable taxes and lobbying. In addition, it is established the existence of a transitional dynamics featuring convergence to a … balanced growth path, characterized by constant taxes and lobbying (and a constant growth rate of consumption and capital …

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Frontier issues of the political economy of migration

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

affect, via a lobbying process, the choice of public policy. We also consider how interest groups and lobbying activities …

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Economic science and political influence

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012

When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018

constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Combining data on campaign finance donations made by individuals and …. Importantly, the latter effect is significantly larger when there is less attention on politics. Thereby, we draw on exogenous …

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Institution formation and cooperation with heterogeneous agents

Kube, Sebastian; Schaube, Sebastian; … - 2014

Driven by an ever-growing number of studies that explore the effectiveness of institutional mechanisms meant to mitigate cooperation problems, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the endogenous implementation of these institutions. In this paper, we test within a unified framework...

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Uncertainty and the politics of employment protection

Vindigni, Andrea (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion. A key result...

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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid : an experimental study

D'Exelle, Ben (contributor); Riedl, Arno (contributor) - 2008

We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...