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Does Democratization Benefit the Environment in the Long-Run in the Presence of Inequality?

Drosdowski, Thomas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2006

Political economy may provide an important link between inequality and pollution. This paper studies the dynamic … relationship between inequality and redistributive policy leading to differing transitional paths of pollution to the steady state …, using a pollution-augmented framework developed by Benabou and employing numerical simulations. The results indicate that …

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Democracy Deficits, Inequality and Pollution. A Politico-Economic Analysis

Drosdowski, Thomas - 2005

model with pollution as an aggregate externality. The decisive voter chooses redistribution contributing to abatement …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262943

Democracy Deficits, Inequality and Pollution. A Politico-Economic Analysis

Drosdowski, Thomas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2005

model with pollution as an aggregate externality. The decisive voter, whose income can differ from the median one, chooses …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464760

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

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn prepared this study during his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics. This dissertation contributes to the empirics of public economics and...

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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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Information, social mobility and the demand for redistribution

Feri, Francesco - 2008

This paper studies how heterogeneity in income dynamics affects the POUM hypothesis (the idea that poor people do not support high level of redistribution because they hope to be rich in the future). We consider a setting where individuals evaluate their expected future income using both their...

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The Political Economy of Redistribution Policy

Bellani, Luna; Ursprung, Heinrich - 2016

We review the literature on the public choice approach to explaining redistribution policies. The focus is on policies that are pursued with the sole reason to redistribute initial endowments. Moreover, we restrict ourselves to redistribution in democracies. In democratic settings, generic...

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Urban political structure and inequality: Political economy lessons from early modern German cities

Schaff, Felix - 2022

What was the impact of urban political structure on economic inequality in preindustrial times? I document that more closed political institutions were associated with higher economic inequality in a panel of early modern German cities. To investigate the mechanisms behind that...

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Invest, expropriate, or wait? Expected income and the demand for redistribution

Harms, Philipp; Zink, Stefan - 2000

In this paper we offer an explanation why a poor majority does not necessarily expropriate a rich minority. We present a dynamic model in which individuals are willing to accept an unequal distribution of income in the current period if they are sufficiently optimistic about their future...

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Do the rich vote conservative because they are rich?

Lind, Jo Thori - 2006

Political economy models predict that the rich oppose redistribution, and hence vote for conservative parties. Although this seems to fit the data well, I show that this is not true when we control for unobservable characteristics. Using Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is...

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