We describe the evolution of the power struggle in Greece among key economic and political stakeholders, who have tried …

and current account deficits, which have in turn driven Greece’s foreign indebtedness to alarming levels, necessitating …

We describe the evolution of the power struggle in Greece among key economic and political stakeholders, who have tried …

and current account deficits, which have in turn driven Greece's foreign indebtedness to alarming levels, necessitating …

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We show that inequality may have no discernible effect on the size of redistributive programs. …

In this paper we build a model of trade in vertically differentiated products and find that income inequality can … inequality on the demand for imports is then assessed by examining panel data for 36 developing and developed countries for the … 1980-1997 period. We find significant evidence supporting our prediction that inequality has a large influence on the …

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We study the effects of inequality on the size (and structure) of redistributive programs in both perfectly … case and that in the latter case an increase in inequality can be associated with a fall in the tax rate. We find also that …

high-income households. The model predicts a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and the median … tariff rate over the tax rate to inequality and a set of control variables such as GDP per capita, openness, the degree of …

In this paper we build a model of trade in vertically differentiated products and find that income inequality can … inequality on the demand for imports is then assessed by examining US data for the 1948-1996 period. Using the Johansen (1988 …, income, and relative prices). However, once we include a measure of inequality in our VAR specification we find not only …