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How do governments fare about redistribution? : new evidence on the political economy of redistribution

Padovano, Fabio; Scervini, Francesco; Turati, Gilberto - 2016 - This version: September 2016

We examine whether and to what extent political institutions explain different performances in income redistribution … across countries. In particular, we first review available sources of data and measures of income redistribution, discussing … explanations of redistribution from resources and instruments, as well as supply side factors. We then provide empirical evidence …

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Pareto-improving optimal capital and labor taxes

Greulich, Katharina; Laczó, Sarolta; Marcet, Albert - 2016

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Some macroeconomic consequences of basic income and employment subsidies

Moutos, Thomas; Scarth, William M. - 2003

income redistribution and employment creation. In particular, the introduction of both a guaranteed annual income (basic …

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Income taxes, property values, and migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2003

We consider taxation by a Leviathan government and by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country, when migration from one country to another is and is not possible. In a closed economy, a utilitarian government may transfer income from the poor to the...

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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget

König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...

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Strategic campaigns and redistributive politics

Schultz, Christian - 2003

The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties fabor special groups. The parties will...

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The structure of political power and redistribution in economies with multiple governments

Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl A.; Kochi, Ikuho; Gutiérrez … - In: Estudios económicos 30 (2015) 2, pp. 269-303

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Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden

Bastani, Spencer; Lundberg, Jacob - 2016

We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax …

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The political economy of redistribution policy

Bellani, Luna; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2016

We review the literature on the public choice approach to explaining redistribution policies. The focus is on policies … that are pursued with the sole reason to redistribute initial endowments. Moreover, we restrict ourselves to redistribution … in democracies. In democratic settings, generic redistribution games lack equilibria. Structure-inducing rules that give …

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Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden

Bastani, Spencer; Lundberg, Jacob - 2016

We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566489