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How much income redistribution? : an explanation based on vote-buying and corruption

Balafoutas, Loukas - 2009

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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

’ policy choices by transferring money to them. We observe very high levels of redistribution – even when transfers to …

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The Power of Money: Wealth Effects in Contests.

Schroyen, Fred; Treich, Nicolas - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2013

Two wealth effects typically arise in any contest: i) wealth decreases the marginal cost of effort, but also ii) decreases the marginal benefit of winning the contest. In this paper, we introduce three types of strategic contest models depending on whether the first, second, or both wealth...

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Redistribution and market efficiency: An experimental study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - In: Journal of Public Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 39-52

We study the interaction between competitive markets and income redistribution that reallocates unequal pre-tax market … (DA) with exogenous zero or full redistribution. In another setup, after trading, they vote on redistributive tax policies … in a majoritarian election with two competing candidates. This results in virtually full redistribution, even when …

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Inequality, Redistribution and Growth

Meijdam, Lex; Haile, D. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

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Worker retraining and transfer payments: The political economy of social protection

Jain, Sanjay - 2017

redistribution and retraining - that arguably characterize many reform packages. We analyse the interaction of compensatory …. Conversely, it may be possible for an economic reform to win political support in the absence of compensatory redistribution … redistribution and retraining programmes, and demonstrate that the provision of redistributive programmes might distort incentives …

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Reapportionment and Redistribution : Consequences of Electoral Reform in Japan

Horiuchi, Yusaku; Saito, Jun - 2011

by focusing on reapportionment associated with the electoral reform in Japan. First, we show that the reform of 1994 …

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Contests with small noise and the robustness of the all-pay auction

Ewerhart, Christian - 2016

, political lobbying, electoral competition, optimally biased contests, the empirical analysis of rent-seeking, and dynamic …

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Elastic contests and the robustness of the all-pay auction

Ewerhart, Christian - 2014

This paper studies a large class of imperfectly discriminating contests, referred to as elastic contests, that induce players to either overbid a standing bid or to abstain from bidding altogether. Many common forms of contest are elastic. In any equilibrium of an elastic contest, there is...

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Rent-seeking games and the all-pay auction

Ewerhart, Christian - 2015

This paper considers rent-seeking games in which a small percentage change in a player's bid has a large percentage impact on her odds of winning, i.e., on the ratio of her respective probabilities of winning and losing. An example is the Tullock contest with a high R. The analysis provides a...

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