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Konrad, Kai A. - 2003

It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A s policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can...

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Aspirations of the middle class : voting on redistribution and status concerns

Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2011

. Redistribution to real co-players has a negative effect on the median voter's tax rate choice. Further, perceived income mobility … decreases the desired amount of redistribution. Our results suggest the importance of concerns about own mobility as well as … play a role in the political economy context. -- Redistribution ; other-regarding preferences ; median voter ; experiments …

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Social mobility and redistributive taxation

Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010

attributed to social or other-regarding preferences. -- Median voter ; redistribution ; social mobility …

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Aspirations of the Middle Class : Voting on Redistribution and Status Concerns

Konrad, Kai A. - 2011

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Moral cost, commitment, and committee size

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A. - 2003

Consider a committee that in the past has made a promise not to confiscate the profits from a foreign investor. After the investment has taken place, there is a material benefit if the committee decides to default on the earlier promise. But there are also some small moral costs for those who...

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Inverse campaigning

Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A’s policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306994