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Political economy of non-compliance with the golden rule of public finance

Uchida, Yuki; Ono, Tetsuo - 2025

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Political economy and structural transformation : democracy, regulation and public investment

Martinez-Bravo, Monica; Wantchekon, Leonard - In: Oxford development studies 51 (2023) 4, pp. 417-435

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Globalization and development : the impact of international trade on political and social institutions

Khoban, Roza - 2021

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Voting chances instead of voting weights

Di Giannatale, Paolo; Passarelli, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We study political distortions that emerge in situations where agents’ political power is disproportionate with respect … usual weighted majority voting cannot prevent political distortions from emerging in a huge mass of situations. Distortions …

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Voting Chances Instead of Voting Weights

Giannatale, Paolo Di; Passarelli, Francesco - ISLA, Centre for research on Latin American Studies and … - 2011

We study political distortions that emerge in situations where agents' political power is disproportionate with respect … evaluate both the economic and the political power. We show that usual weighted majority voting cannot prevent political … distortions from emerging in a huge mass of situations. We propose an alternative voting method based on random assignments of …

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The scope of political redistribution with proportional income taxation

Lopez-Rodriguez, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper investigates the politicians �incentives to pursue income redistribution when governments are constrained to levy taxes on labor income and this creates distortions. Politicians who strive to be elected may strategically redistribute through in-kind rather than cash transfers and...

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An Analysis of the Stability Pact

Uhlig, H.F.H.V.S.; Beetsma, R.M.W.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

We analyse the proposed "Stability Pact" for countries joining a European Monetary Union (EMU). In an EMU shortsighted governments fail to fully internalise the inflationary consequences of their debt policies. This results in excessive debt accumulation. Therefore, while in the absence of EMU...

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