When considering electoral campaigns, candidates receiving contributions from relatively unpopular industries should be regarded less favorably by voters that have information on the sources of funding. To offset this unpopularity effect, politicians may either demand more money for campaign...

Governments redistribute by means of taxes, transfers, and public services. Relying on three sufficient statistics, we characterize the conditions under which nonlinear income taxation is optimally combined with input public provision in two-class and multi-class economies, where individual...

When considering electoral campaigns, those candidates that receive contributions from relatively unpopular industries should be regarded less favorably by voters that have information on the sources of funding. To offset this unpopularity effect, politicians may either demand more money for...