We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or … redistribution systems in place, greater inequality automatically leads to more redistribution, even if no policy action is taken. We … redistribution. Between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, the redistributive strength of tax-benefit systems then weakened in many …

intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether …

Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per …

in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete grant history. We provide evidence that …

governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …

, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We … estimate the model's key parameters using administrative data on plant-level production and pollution decisions. We then … pollution changes. Finally, we compare the model-driven decomposition to a statistical decomposition. The model and data suggest …

redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …