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The political economy of taxation : power, structure, redistribution
Winer, Stanley L. - 2016
In this chapter I provide an overview of the political economy of taxation in democratic states by considering the … democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573919
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The Political Economy of Taxation : Power, Structure, Redistribution
Winer, Stanley L. - 2017
In this chapter I provide an overview of the political economy of taxation in democratic states by considering the … democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964375
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The Political Economy of Taxation: Power, Structure, Redistribution
Winer, Stanley L. - 2016
In this chapter I provide an overview of the political economy of taxation in democratic states by considering the … democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584951
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Political intervention in economic activity
Gilles, Enrique - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2010
redistribution. We allow politicians to have core support groups they understand better, this implies politicians are more or less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465853
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Redistributive politics with target-specific beliefs
Fong, Christina M.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target … taxation of the rich. Survey evidence from the United States and Germany and experimental evidence on giving money to real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993478
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Redistributive politics with target-specific beliefs
Fong, Christina; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target … taxation of the rich. Survey evidence from the United States and Germany and experimental evidence on giving money to real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019139
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Almost orthogonal outcomes under probabilistic voting: A cautionary example
Dolmas, Jim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
I illustrate by example a way in which equilibria under probabilistic voting are fragile with respect to assumptions about the non-policy components of voter preferences. I also offer intuition for the fragility using the social welfare functions which also describe the equilibria.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109279
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Searching for Keynes
Ferris, J. Stephen; Winer, Stanley L. - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 1999
Since its publication over 60 years ago, Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Prices (1936) has substantially influenced both macroeconomic theory and popular opinion about what governments can and should do. However, the extent to which counter-cyclical stabilization has actually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004961543
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The Scope of Political Redistribution with Income Taxation
Lopez Rodriguez, David - 2014
This paper investigates the politicians' incentives to pursue income redistribution when governments are constrained to …-kind transfers reduces the disincentive effects of taxation in labor effort and enlarges the pool of resources for political … redistribution. As a result, politicians are able to implement larger redistributive transfers and improve the well-being of swing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050181
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Taxing Expats. A Study in Instrumental versus Expressive Voting
Blankart, Charles B.; Margraf, Simon - 2010
preferential taxation of expats. Our econometric analysis reveals that in rural communities, where attracting rich expats has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270259