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the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target … taxation of the rich. Survey evidence from the United States and Germany and experimental evidence on giving money to real …
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We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social … attributed to social or other-regarding preferences. -- Median voter ; redistribution ; social mobility …
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We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social …
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We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social …
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We study the effect of direct democracy on local taxation. Our setting is the German federal state of Bavaria, where in …
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We use new annual data on gasoline taxes and corporate income taxes from U.S. states to analyze whether politicians avoid tax increases in election years. These data contain 3 useful attributes: (1) when state politicians enact tax laws, (2) when state politicians implement tax laws on consumers...
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We examine electoral cycles in tax reforms using monthly data over the period of 1990-2018 for 22 advanced economies and emerging markets. We show that governments tend to avoid announcing tax reforms during the months running up to elections. In addition, they become more likely to announce...
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We use new annual data on gasoline taxes and corporate income taxes from U.S. states to analyze whether politicians avoid tax increases in election years. These data contain 3 useful attributes: (1) when state politicians enact tax laws, (2) when state politicians implement tax laws on consumers...
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A computable model of economic and political competition is developed in which tax rates and the size of government are determined along with private prices and quantities in a broader equilibrium. The framework is applied to the United States by incorporating the GEMTAP model (with 19...
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