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more likely - is higher, as is the probability of a crisis, the greater the level of favoritism. If the favored group is … important enough to be pivotal when society votes on the entitlement level, favoritism also leads to greater public expenditure …
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more likely - is higher, as is the probability of a crisis, the greater the level of favoritism. If the favored group is … important enough to be pivotal when society votes on the entitlement level, favoritism also leads to greater public expenditure …
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Zilibotti (2012) to incorporate wage inequality within each country. In this extended framework, we present conflict within and … across generations over fiscal policy and show that a low-inequality country realizes tight fiscal policy with low public … debt accumulation, whereas a high-inequality country experiences loose fiscal policy with high public debt accumulation …
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This paper studies how distributional and electoral concerns shape sovereign default incentives within a quantitative model of sovereign debt with heterogeneous agents and non-linear income taxation. The small open economy is characterized by a two-party system in which the left-wing party has a...
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This paper offers an overview of Alberto Alesina's life and of his scholarly work (§ 1 and 2). It will be argued, that Alberto would have entirely deserved the award of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science, except only for his premature passing away. His foundational contribution was the...
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government ideology and elections influence outcomes (income inequality and budget consolidation) and political processes (fiscal …
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This paper offers an overview of Alberto Alesina's life and of his scholarly work (§ 1 and 2). It will be argued, that Alberto would have entirely deserved the award of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science, except only for his premature passing away. His foundational contribution was the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469531
We present a model of growth and distributional conflict that implies a non-monotonic relationship between average wealth and the likelihood of radical redistribution: while the net benefits of redistribution for members of the poor class are small at low stages of development, a shift towards...
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