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determination of government debt and deficits in a dynamic political economy model. We show that this conventional wisdom relies on … uncertainty, then a rent-seeking government actually over-saves and over-taxes along the equilibrium path relative to a benevolent … government. This result emerges because of the option value of rent-seeking: A rent-seeking government over-values future funds …
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size of this political distortion. In this paper we study the determination of government debt and deficits in a dynamic …, a rent-seeking government over-saves and over-taxes along the equilibrium path relative to a benevolent government …
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size of this political distortion. In this paper we study the determination of government debt and deficits in a dynamic …, a rent-seeking government over-saves and over-taxes along the equilibrium path relative to a benevolent government …
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size of this political distortion. In this paper we study the determination of government debt and deficits in a dynamic …, a rent-seeking government over-saves and over-taxes along the equilibrium path relative to a benevolent government …
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We examine democratic public-good provision with heterogeneous legislators. Decisions are taken by majority rule and an agenda-setter proposes a level of the public good, taxes, and subsidies. Members are heterogeneous with respect to their benefits from the public good. We find that, depending...
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