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Collective Choice and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Epple, Dennis - 2000
Some public goods are provided entirely with private contributions, others with a mixture of public and private funding, and still others are entirely publicly funded. To explain this variation, a model of dual provision is developed that endogenizes public and private funding. Members of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470948
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Producers and Predators
Grossman, Herschel I. - 1999
This paper explores a series of general-equilibrium models in which people can choose to be either producers or predators, and in which producers can allocate their resources either to production or to guarding their production against predators. The analysis shows how the ratio of predators to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471640
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Political Economics and Public Finance
Persson, Torsten - 1999
Observed fiscal policy varies greatly across time and countries. How can we explain this variation across time and countries? This paper surveys the recent literature that has tried to answer this question. We adopt a unified approach in portraying public policy as the equilibrium outcome of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471701
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Centralized versus Decentralized Provision of Local Public Goods : A Political Economy Analysis
Besley, Timothy - 1999
This paper takes a fresh look at the trade-off between centralized and decentralized provision of local public goods. The point of departure is to model a centralized system as one in which public spending is financed by general taxation, but districts can receive different levels of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471712
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Global Diversification, Growth and Welfare with Imperfectly Integrated Markets for Goods
Dumas, Bernard - 1999
In this article, we examine the effect of the imperfect mobility of goods on international risk sharing and, through that, on the investment in risky projects, welfare and growth. We find that the welfare gain of financial market openness is not monotonic with respect to investors' risk aversion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471806
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The Tiebout Hypothesis and Majority Rule : An Empirical Analysis
Epple, Dennis - 1999
The paper provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of majority rule and Tiebout sorting within a system of local jurisdictions. The idea behind the estimation procedure is to investigate whether observed levels of public expenditures satisfy necessary conditions implied by majority rule in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471830
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Political Polarization and Expected Economic Outcomes
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
We use a large-scale representative survey of households from October 19-21 that elicits respondents' expectations about the presidential election's outcome as well as their economic expectations to document several new facts. First, people disagree strongly about the likely outcome of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482263
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The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility
Ichino, Andrea - 2010
The intergenerational elasticity of income is generally considered one of the best summary measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity of success to all its members, irrespective of their family background. We present a parsimonious political economy model and show how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462705
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
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Migration-Regime Liberalization and Social Security : Political-Economy Effect
Razin, Assaf - 2009
The pay-as-you-go social security system, increasingly burdened by dwindling labor force, can benefit from immigrants whose birth rates exceed those of the native born birth. The paper examines adynamic political-economy mechanism through which the social security system influences the young...
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