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Kindermann, Fabian; Krueger, Dirk - 2014

fiscal policies that achieve a desired degree of redistribution in society. We find that marginal tax rates on the top 1% of …

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Sequential Optimization, Front-Loaded Information, and U.S. Consumption

Willman, Alpo - 2021

In an overlapping generations maximization framework with consumers, whose information on uncertain future income realizations is front-loaded, a closed form aggregate consumption function with CRRA preferences is derived. To have a closed form solution we assume that consumers solve their...

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Fractionalization and the Size of Government

Lind, Jo Thori - 2003

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. …

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The Dog that Stopped Barking: Mass Legal Executions in 21st Century America

Blackman, Paul H.; McLaughlin, Vance - In: Laws 3 (2014) 1, pp. 153-162

During the first two centuries of European colonization of what is now the United States, executions for a variety of offenses relatively frequently involved mass executions, that is, the execution for the same criminal incident of four or more persons. By the time of American independence, some...

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Understanding Proposed Changes to the H-1B Visa: Protecting American Government Interests, Improving the Opportunities for American Companies, or Potentially Hurting Hopeful Immigrants?

Stonawski, Rebecca - In: Laws 2 (2013) 3, pp. 233-243

This paper will examine the US government’s proposed changes to the H-1B visa, a dual-intent visa meant to bring highly-skilled individuals to the US labor market. It will first explain what the H-1B visa is and is not and what might happen to the H-1B visa in the future. The focus of the...

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On the Relationship between Mobility, Population Growth, and Capital Spending in the United States

Bassetto, Marco; McGranahan, Leslie - 2009

In this paper, we assess the empirical relationship between population growth, mobility, and state-level capital spending in the United States. To evaluate the magnitude of the coefficients, we introduce an explicit, quantitative political-economy model of government spending determination,...

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Market Inefficiency, Insurance Mandate and Welfare : U.S. Health Care Reform 2010

Jung, Jürgen; Tran, Chung - 2014

counteract the crowding-out effect of the Medicaid expansion. The redistribution measures embedded in the ACA result in welfare …

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Market Inefficiency, Insurance Mandate and Welfare : U.S. Health Care Reform 2010

Jung, Jürgen - 2014

counteract the crowding-out effect of the Medicaid expansion. The redistribution measures embedded in the ACA result in welfare …

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Tax buyouts

Del Negro, Marco; Perri, Fabrizio; Schivardi, Fabiano - 2010

The paper studies a fiscal policy instrument that can reduce fiscal distortions, without affecting revenues, in a politically viable way. The instrument is a private contract (tax buyout), offered by the government to each individual citizen, whereby the citizen can choose to pay a fixed price...

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Optimal fiscal policy in overlapping generations models

Garriga, Carlos - 2017

In this paper, we explore the proposition that the optimal capital income tax is zero using an overlapping generations model. We prove that for a large class of preferences, the optimal capital income tax along the transition path and in steady state is non-zero. For a version of the model...

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