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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …

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Predictable Life-Cycle Shocks, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

Primiceri, Giorgio E. - 2006

Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to...

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Collective Negative Shocks and Preferences for Redistribution : Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis in Germany

Bellani, Luna; Fazio, Andrea; Scervini, Francesco - 2022

the impact of a negative shock affecting every strata of the population, such as the development of COVID-19, on …

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Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution : evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany

Bellani, Luna; Fazio, Andrea; Scervini, Francesco - 2022

the impact of a negative shock affecting every strata of the population, such as the development of COVID-19, on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800660

Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany

Bellani, Luna; Fazio, Andrea; Scervini, Francesco - 2021

the impact of a negative shock affecting every strata of the population, such as the development of COVID-19, on …

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Political institutions and income (re-)distribution : evidence from developed economies

Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2013

We discuss the effect of formal political institutions (electoral systems, fiscal decentralization, presidential and parliamentary regimes) on the extent and direction of income (re-) distribution. Empirical evidence is presented for a large sample of 70 economies and a panel of 13 OECD...

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Political institutions and income (re-)distribution : evidence from developed economies

Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2013

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China : weathering the storm and learning the lessons

1999 - 1. print.

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Inefficiencies and Inequities of Capitalism - And How They Can Be Reduced

Turnbull, Shann - 2011

Perpetual property rights to land, structures, corporations and money allows investors to be overpaid to create inefficiencies and inequities in a way not measured by accountants and little noticed by economists. All intellectual property rights have limited life. Most assets depreciate over...

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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...

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