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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis
Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
redistribution and a modest effect of two year led inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544770
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Fiscal Relations Across Levels of Government in the United States
Laubach, Thomas - 2005
and expenditure assignments. This link reflects traditionally weak support for redistribution across jurisdictions. Grants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444566
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U.S. Shadow Economies : A State-Level Study
Wiseman, Travis - 2015
Recent studies of shadow economies focus primarily on cross-country comparisons. Few have examined regional or state-level variations in underground economic activity. This paper presents estimates of the shadow economy for 50 U.S. states over the period 1997 to 2008. Results suggest that tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036033
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Political (self-)selection and competition : evidence from U.S. Congressional elections
2021 - This version: October 2020
How does competition affect the entry and selection of politicians? I use data on U.S. Congressional primary and general elections for the years 1998-2014 to study this question. I measure quality using previous legislative experience and the novel "identity match" quantifying how well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013335975
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The design of political institutions: electoral competition and the choice of ballot access restrictions in the United States
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
Recent contributions to the political economics literature (Trebbi et al. 2007; Aghion et al. 2004) have challenged the view that political institutions are exogenous to the behaviour of agents in the political arena. We explicitly address the potential endogeneity of institutions by examining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264443
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The design of political institutions : electoral competition and the choice of ballot access restrictions in the United States
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
Recent contributions to the political economics literature (Trebbi et al. 2007; Aghion et al. 2004) have challenged the view that political institutions are exogenous to the behavior of agents in the political arena. We explicitly address the potential endogeneity of institutions by examining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746793
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Suspiciously timed trade disputes
Conconi, Paola; DeRemer, David; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - 2015
This paper shows that electoral incentives affect the occurrence of trade disputes. Focusing on WTO disputes filed by the United States during the 1995-2012 period, we show that U.S. presidents are more likely to initiate a dispute in the year preceding their re-election date. Moreover, disputes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530066
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The Design of Political Institutions : Electoral Competition and the Choice of Ballot Access Restrictions in the United States
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2021
Recent contributions to the political economics literature (Trebbi et al. 2007; Aghion et al. 2004) have challenged the view that political institutions are exogenous to the behaviour of agents in the political arena. We explicitly address the potential endogeneity of institutions by examining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316474
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Migration elasticities, fiscal federalism and the ability of states to redistribute income
Giertz, Seth H.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2012
This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under …-level redistribution are substantial, but state action may still be preferred to a federal policy that is at odds with preferences of a … state pursuing additional redistribution, but not a cost at the national level. -- fiscal federalism ; income redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581381
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Interstate Fiscal Disparity in State Fiscal Year 1999
Tannenwald, Robert; Turner, Nicholas - 2004
This paper compares states in terms of their relative fiscal capacity, fiscal need, fiscal comfort, and tax effort in state fiscal year 1999 (FY1999). It is the most recent in a series initiated by the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) in 1962. As in previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263336