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Social mobility and redistributive taxation

Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social …

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Estimating the Impact of Gubernatorial Partisanship on Policy Settings and Economic Outcomes: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

Using panel data from US states over the period 1941-2002, I measure the impact of gubernatorial partisanship on a wide range of different policy settings and economic outcomes. Across 32 measures, there are surprisingly few differences in policy settings, social outcomes and economic outcomes...

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What’s the Difference Between a Donkey and an Elephant? Using Panel Data from US States to Estimate the Impact of Partisanship on Policy Settings and Economic Outcomes

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

Using panel data from US states, I measure the impact of partisanship on a wide range of different policy settings and economic outcomes. Across 32 measures, there are surprisingly few differences in policy settings, social outcomes and economic outcomes under Democrats and Republicans. In terms...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032821

Democratic Public Good Provision

Hassler, John; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

financed through age-dependent taxation that distorts human capital investment. Taxes redistribute income both across different …

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Competing on Good Politicians

Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a theoretical model in which ideological parties select candidates between party loyalists and experts, and allocate them into the electoral districts. Non-ideological voters, who care about national and...

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To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy

de la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...

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Redistributive Politics with Distortionary Taxation

Crutzen, Benoît SY; Sahuguet, Nicolas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

taxes and redistribution schemes with distortions. We show that the presence of distortions makes full taxation unattractive …We extend the discussion of redistributive politics across electoral systems to allow for taxation to be distortionary … taxation can be understood as an analysis of the trade-off between efficiency and targetability. We derive the equilibrium …

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Transparency Gloves for Grabbing Hands? Politics and (Mis)Governance

Blumkin, Tomer; Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Employing the canonical political agency model, this Paper studies the incentives of the government to provide high-quality services by reducing corruption. Acting as a principal in a moral hazard framework, the public disciplines the incumbent by replacing him if the generated output is...

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Reforming Europe's Labour Market: Political Issues

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

In this paper we study the political issues associated with reform in the European labour market. We first discuss the role played by labour market rigidities in European society, and argue that reform is a difficult task because many regulations and rigidities benefit the majority of the...

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On the Political Economy of Labour Market Flexibility

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper starts from the observation that despite their very high levels of unemployment, major European countries have devoted few resources to reducing it. This suggests that there is little political concern about high unemployment. I develop a model where the government tries to increase...

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