Energy subsidies are used widely. Although adverse from an efficiency perspective, subsidies confer private benefits on … overcoming the barriers to reform. The starting point is to look at the motives lying behind the adoption of energy subsidies … then looks at the characteristics of countries that use energy subsidies. Countries with weak institutions - often non …

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …

Let there be two individuals: "rich," and "poor." Due to inefficiency of the income redistribution policy, if a social …

, giving rise to a trade-off between redistribution and the inefficiency of the labor allocation. We compare two environments … lower nominal value in open economies, the actual extent of redistribution in equilibrium is larger in the open than in the …. -- international trade ; redistribution ; political economy ; factor mobility …

democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …

The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … inequality. We also examine the effect of the length of electoral periods on redistribution and welfare for different groups and …

, giving rise to a trade-off between redistribution and the inefficiency of the labor allocation. We compare two environments … lower nominal value in open economies, the actual extent of redistribution in equilibrium is larger in the open than in the …

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within a group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups has the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between groups inequality decreases redistribution …

democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …