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Optimal provision of public goods: a synthesis

Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Verdelin, Nicolaj - 2009

There currently exist two competing approaches in the literature on the optimal provision of public goods. The standard approach highlights the importance of distortionary taxation and distributional concerns. The new approach neutralizes distributional concerns by adjusting the non-linear...

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Endogenous (re-)distributive policies and economic growth: a comparative static analysis

Rehme, Günther - 2007

This paper analyzes the interplay of growth, (re-)distribution and policies when the latter are set exogenously or when …

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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development: growth dynamics with two elites

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005

other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural … earned in the primary goods sector. Second, by shifting the distribution of political power from resource owners towards the …

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Is a flat tax feasible in a grown-up welfare state?

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2007

The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the effects of revenue neutral flat rate tax reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of...

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Living wage', class conflict and ethnic strife

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2008

, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict …

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Employment, Inflation and Income Distribution in an Open Economy. Pricing-to-market in a Modified NAIRU Model

Ederer, Stefan - 2010

equilibrium is stable at any rate of unemployment; the long-run Phillips curve is horizontal. Second, income distribution varies … distribution and international competitiveness, the NAIRU ceases to be a "strong attractor". These characteristics to a certain …

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On inflation as a regressive consumption tax

Erosa, Andrés; Ventura, Gustavo - 2000

Evidence on the portfolio holdings and transaction patterns of households suggests that the burden of inflation is not evenly distributed. We build a monetary growth model consistent with key features of cross- sectional household data and use this framework to study the distributional impact of...

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Why Parallel Trade May Raise Producers' Profits

Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2005

This paper shows that a manufacturer may benefit from parallel trade. In addition to an intuitive condition about the effect of demand shocks, this occurs when competitive retailers must order inventories before they know the realization of demand and for products whose sale value drops at the...

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Is a Flat Tax politically feasible in a grown-up Welfare State?

Schaefer, Thilo; Peichl, Andreas; Fuest, Clemens - 2007

The introduction of a flat tax is supposed to have several advantages. Administration and compliance costs are reduced, as well as incentives for tax evasion. Furthermore, positive employment and growth effects are expected. Despite these advantages, a flat rate tax is not very popular in most...

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Locating Economic Concentration

Hinloopen, Jeroen; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2004

We analyze the distribution of economic activity across space for different types of activity and different levels of … aggregation. Not only is this distribution highly uneven (independently of the type of activity and level of aggregation), it is … also remarkably regular regarding its size distribution (rank-size rule or Zipf’s Law) and regarding its interaction …

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