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From microeconomic favoritism to macroeconomic populism
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040249
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Alberto Alesina (1957-2020) : man, researcher, Professor of Economics, popularizer
Vindigni, Andrea - 2023
This paper offers an overview of Alberto Alesina's life and of his scholarly work (§ 1 and 2). It will be argued, that Alberto would have entirely deserved the award of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science, except only for his premature passing away. His foundational contribution was the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014390535
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Wealth and politics : studies on inter vivos transfers and partisan effects
Schinke, Christoph - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742787
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Income inequality and economic growth : evidence from American data
Panizza, Ugo - 1999 - This version: August, 1999
Cross-country studies have found a negative relationship between income inequality and economic growth. The main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541046
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The political economy of redistribution and (in) efficiency in Latin America and The Caribbean
Altube, Matias Guizzo; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, … - 2023
helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546295
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Optimal Level of Government Debt : Matching Wealth Inequality and the Fiscal Sector
Vogel, Edgar - 2014
We calibrate an incomplete markets large scale OLG model to the US income and wealth distribution and examine the effects of alternative government debt levels and adjustment policies on macroeconomic aggregates and welfare. We find that the government should hold negative debt. Due to the high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047686
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Does Austerity Cause Polarization?
Huebscher, Evelyne - 2020
Most party systems have seen a considerable rise in polarization during the past decades. We show that fiscal policies have contributed to this development. Our macro-level analysis of 166 elections since 1980 finds that austerity increases both electoral abstention and votes for non-mainstream...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841064
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Inequality, Taxation, and Sovereign Default Risk
Deng, Minjie - 2020
This paper studies the impact of income inequality on sovereign spreads under elastic labor and endogenous taxation. We … first document that high pre-tax income inequality is associated with high spreads both across countries and across U …. With the model parameterized to state-level data, we find that income inequality is an important determinant of spreads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840571
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Structural Reforms and Income Inequality : Who Benefits from Market-Oriented Reforms?
Gründler, Klaus - 2020
We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use … data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest … that market-oriented structural reforms were associated with rising income inequality in the full sample. Trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843419
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Structural reforms and income inequality : who benefits from market-oriented reforms?
Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; Wochner, Timo - 2020
We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use … data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest … that market-oriented structural reforms were associated with rising income inequality in the full sample. Trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154916