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Empirical tests of the theories on the relationship between political competition and economic performance generate a puzzle: data tend to support the theory at the lower levels of government, but not in panels of countries. We argue that the larger set of policy instruments reduces the tax...
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country whose autocratic regime represents a fertile ground for strategic redistribution. Relying on political economy …
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This paper aims to explore the determinants of household income and expenditure growth, and assess whether the poor are …
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growth dynamics. We find multiple politico-economic regimes where the pressure for redistribution is highly non …In this paper, we assume that redistribution modifies the community structure of an economy and generates both intra …-linear depending on social affinity. In some range of inequality, the ends may oppose high rates of redistribution against the middle …
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redistribution and the impacts of redistribution on growth can be misleading. …This paper re-examines the determinants and consequences of redistribution in light of improved data and methods … the best available estimates of both pre- and post-redistribution inequality for the largest set of countries and periods …
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, efficiency and growth. We find that left regimes, choosing more progressive redistribution, maintain better environmental quality … model with pollution as an aggregate externality. The decisive voter chooses redistribution contributing to abatement … of democracy imperfections on redistribution. …
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Many theoretical models show that redistribution causes low growth or capital outflows even though empirically … redistribution and growth are often found to be positively associated across countries. This paper argues that tax competition and … the danger of capital outflows leads optimizing governments to pursue high growth, no redistribution policies in …
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In this paper I readdress the result that capital income taxes are bad instruments for pure redistribution and should … be zero in the long run. In a neoclassical growth model a capital income cum investment subsidy tax, which is not … distorting accumulation, is considered to investigate if net capital income taxes used for pure redistribution are zero in a long …
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'the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.' That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with … macroeconomic imbalances, high inflation, low growth, as well as low-quality public policies. When redistributive efforts are short …
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An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …
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