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The Simple Analytics of Elite Behaviour Under Limited State Capacity

Bourguignon, Francois; Verdier, Thierry - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

This paper discusses the issue of taxation and redistribution in economies dominated by Elites with limited state …

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Do the Rich Vote Conservative Because They Are Rich?

Lind, Jo Thori - In: Review of Economics and Institutions 1 (2010) 2

Political economics predicts that the rich oppose redistribution and vote for conservative parties. Although this …

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An Empirical Characterization of Redistribution Shocks and Output Dynamics

Hauzenberger, Klemens; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2010

, is strong enough to make such a redistribution an attractive, maybe provocative, policy alternative. Across the border in … - redistribution towards profits. We discuss several possible explanations such as the formation of expectations and the different …

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Commodity Taxation and Social Welfare : The Generalised Ramsey Rule

Dreze, Jean; Coady, David - eSocialSciences - 2010

Commodity taxes have three distinct roles: (1) revenue collection, (2) interpersonal redistribution, and (3) resource …

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Inequality, integration, and policy: issues and evidence from EMU

Bertola, Giuseppe - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 8 (2010) 3, pp. 345-365

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Understanding the Public's Attitudes towards Redistribution through Taxation

Reed-Arthurs, Rebbecca; Sheffrin, Steven M. - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2010

This paper explores the public's expressed attitudes towards redistribution, then addresses three important gaps in the … literature on redistribution. First, studies of support for redistribution have used data focused on desires for transfers from …, experimental research has shown that general views about redistribution may differ from concrete judgments about specific …

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Fiscal Federalism in Crisis: Lessons for Europe from the US

Darvas, Zsolt - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2010

The euro area is facing crisis, while the US is not, though the overall fiscal situation and outlook is better in the euro area than in the US, and though the US faces serious state-level fiscal crises. A higher level of fiscal federalism would strengthen the euro area, but is not inevitable....

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Sur le revenu de solidarité active

Mongin, Philippe - In: Revue d'économie politique 118 (2008) 4, pp. 433-474

context, it elaborates on the three arguments for RSA ? rationalization, incentives, and redistribution ? and finally …

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Taxation Reforms: a CGE-Microsimulation Analysis for Pakistan

Ahmed, Saira; Ahmed, Vagar; Abbas, Ahsan - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2010

This paper provides an ex ante assessment of taxation reforms being considered in Pakistan, in order to widen the tax base and rationalise the rate structure of different taxes. Amongst the main proposals, those focusing on sales tax and agricultural direct taxes seem relatively more attractive....

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Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions

Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...

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