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redistribution brought about by a moderate inflation episode. Redistribution takes the form of 'ends-against-the-middle': the middle … calibrated OLG model is used to assess the macroeconomic implications of this redistribution under alternative fiscal policy … rules. We show that inflation-induced redistribution has a persistent negative effect on output, but improves the weighted …
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The paper analyses the revenue-raising, distributional and incentive effects of the personal tax system in Hungary from the start of the transitional tax reforms of 1988, and develops methods for estimating marginal indirect taxes. It evaluates the distributional impact of revenue-neutral...
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even reversing the order of State fiscal endowments per capita after redistribution. It also looks into the disincentive …
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This paper uses comparative statistics in a simple three-period overlapping generations model to show that any pay-as-you-go mechanism for public retirement pensions, when adopted in a dualistic economic system, penalises the most dynamic demographic groups, i.e., the <MI>developing<D> rather than the...</d></mi>
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The Paper studies the effects and the determinants of interregional redistribution in a model of residential and … redistribution always leads to the divergence of regional policies and per capita incomes. Thus, interregional redistribution …
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widespread social unrest and revolution. Political transition, rather than redistribution under existing political institutions … political equilibria and acts as a commitment to redistribution. Our theory also offers a novel explanation for the Kuznets … curve in many Western economies during this period, with the fall in inequality following redistribution due to …
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We analyse how, in representative democracies, income distribution influences the stringency of environmental policy and economic growth. Individuals (who differ in abilities) live for two periods, working when young and owning capital when old. Externalities are caused by a polluting factor....
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This Paper starts from the result of Rochet (1989), that with distortionary income taxes social insurance is a desirable redistributive device when risk and ability are negatively correlated. This finding is re-examined when ex post moral hazard and adverse selection are included, and under...
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If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R&D because it … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …
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We study the politics of intergenerational redistribution in an overlapping-generations model with short …
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