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An empirical analysis of trade-related redistribution and the political viability of free trade
Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2014
undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of … free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the causal effect of expected redistribution associated with the US Trade …. We find that a one standard deviation increase in redistribution leads to more than a 3% point increase in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339571
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Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344840
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Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233915
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Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009236791
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Transparency and Manipulation of Public Accounts
Gavazza, Alessandro - 2012
redistribution, and investigates the incentives for politicians to manipulate public accounts. We show that politicians may choose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012712567
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Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739172
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A politico-economic model of public expenditure and income taxation
Mayoral, Laura; Esteban Marquillas, Joan María - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 10 (2019) 3/4, pp. 479-507
This paper contributes to the literature on majority voting over fiscal policies. We depart from the standard model in two dimensions. First, besides redistributing income, the government uses the net tax revenue to finance the provision of goods and services that become in-kind transfers to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179305
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Compulsory Voting and Public Finance
Hodler, Roland - 2010
Conventional wisdom suggests that compulsory voting lowers the influence of specialinterest groups and leads to policies that are better for less privileged citizens, who often abstain when voting is voluntary. To scrutinize this conventional wisdom, I study public goods provision and rents to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430085
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How do electoral systems affect fiscal policy? : evidence from state and local governments, 1890 to 2005
Funk, Patricia; Gathmann, Christina - 2010
Using a new data set on Swiss state and local governments from 1890 to today, we analyze how the adoption of proportional representation affects fiscal policy. We show that proportional systems shift spending toward broad goods (e.g. education and welfare benefits) but decrease spending on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938710
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Migration and the welfare state : dynamic political-economy theory
Razin, Asaf; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; Suwankiri, Benjarong - 2010
We model an overlapping-generations economy with two skill levels: skilled and unskilled. The welfare-state is modeled simply by a proportional tax on labor income to finance a demogrant in a balanced-budget manner. Therefore, some (the unskilled workers and old retirees) are net beneficiaries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003945852