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Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - 2016

The author studies the persistence of inequality and inefficient governance in a physical capital accumulation model with perfect information, missing credit markets, and endogenous barriers to entry. When access to investment opportunities is regulated, rent-seeking entrepreneurs form...

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Alternative government spending rules : effects on income inequality and welfare

Lim, Guay C.; McNelis, Paul D. - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 17 (2013) 7, pp. 1496-1518

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Should Governments Tax the Rich and Subsidize the Poor? A Comparative Study of Muslim and Christian Respondents

McGee, Robert W.; Benk, Serkan; Yuzbasi, Bahadir - 2019

This study used the most recent World Values Survey dataset to determine whether Christian and Muslim views on the acceptability of taxing the rich and subsidizing the poor was an essential feature of democracy. The sample size included more than 23,000 individuals from more than 50 countries....

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The political economy of the Prussian three-class franchise

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik - 2019

Did the Prussian three-class franchise, which politically over-represented the economic elite, affect policy-making? Combining MP-level political orientation, derived from all roll call votes in the Prussian parliament (1867-1903), with constituency characteristics, we analyze how local vote...

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Welfare and Redistributive Models

Myant, Martin; Drahokoupil, Jan - 2014

redistribution were consolidated in countries with political democracy and established interest representation. They were lowest in …

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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy

Vindigni, Andrea - 2024

political power at the expenses of the median voter. In particular, investments in lobbying activities allow the rich to obtain … variable taxes and lobbying. In addition, it is established the existence of a transitional dynamics featuring convergence to a … balanced growth path, characterized by constant taxes and lobbying (and a constant growth rate of consumption and capital …

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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - 2014 - Preprint

Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of … significantly and positively affects preferences for redistribution. On the other hand, living in an area where most citizens do not … stigmatize rent seeking, makes men more favourable to redistribution, which may be seen as a social equalizer in an unfair …

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Migration and the welfare state : the economic power of the non-voter?

Börner, Kira Astrid; Übelmesser, Silke - 2005

redistribution policies. The interaction of the two effects has so far not been analyzed in isolation. We find that the direction of … and redistribution levels. …

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Biased perceptions of income inequality and redistribution

Engelhardt, Carina; Wagener, Andreas - 2014

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes - though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …

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Distributional consequences of political representation : conference paper

Maaser, Nicola; Stratmann, Thomas - 2014

We investigate the geographical concentration of representatives and the distribution of fiscal transfers both theoretically and empirically. We develop a model which predicts that funds to an area are positively correlated with the number of representatives residing in that area. Our empirical...

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