Bierbrauer, Felix J.; Boyer, Pierre C. - In: Journal of Public Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 1-14
We study political competition in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation. The analysis is made tractable by exploiting the mechanism design formulation of the Mirrleesian problem. We consider basic variants of the Downsian model such as vote-share maximizing politicians, a winner-take-all...