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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy

Vindigni, Andrea - 2024

A model of endogenous growth is presented, based on productive public expenditures, and featuring some degree of income inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital taxation that relies, both on voting and on "influence...

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The consequences of inequality : beliefs and redistributive preferences

Lobeck, Max; Støstad, Morten Nyborg - 2023

What matters for individuals' preferences for redistribution? In this paper we show that consequentialist beliefs about inequality - beliefs about how economic inequality changes the crime rate or the quality of democratic institutions, for example - have a large causal impact on individuals'...

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Skewness, tax progression, and demand for redistribution : evidence from the UK

Pogorelskiy, Kirill; Traub, Stefan - 2017

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Regime type, inequality, and redistributive transfers in developing countries

Dodlova, Marina; Giolbas, Anna - 2017

The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not...

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Balanced-budget redistribution as political equilibrium

Lindbeck, Assar; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 1985

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On the political and economic determinants of redistribution : economic gains, ideological gains, or institutions?

Souza, Gustavo Moreira de - 2022

I describe a structural method to quantify the contribution of different elements of social choice to the level of redistribution. Estimating a DSGE model with microdata on the support for redistribution, I find that if voters disregarded their ideological views on welfare policies,...

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Taxes and income distribution in Chile : some unpleasant redistributive arithmetic

Engel, Eduardo; Galetovic, Alexander; Raddatz, Claudio E. - 1998

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Privatized Keynesianism or conspicuous consumption? : status anxiety and the financialization of consumption in Chile

González, Felipe - 2017

Why do people acquire consumer debt? In this article, I draw on the case of Chile and call into question the … show that financialization might be explained by two subtler mechanisms in the case of Chile and, arguably, other …Weshalb nehmen Verbraucher Kredite auf? Am Beispiel von Chile hinterfrage ich in diesem Beitrag die Erklärungskraft …

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The political economy of local taxation

Mair, Douglas; Laramie, Anthony J. - 1995

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Welfare ratios and distributionally sensitive cost-benefit analysis

Blackorby, Charles; Donaldson, David - 1986

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