A politico-economic model of public expenditure and income taxation
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A Politico-Economic Model of Public Expenditure and Income Taxation
We model the political process as consisting of voting on the issue considered salient, public expenditure, with a subsequent consensus over size of government and income taxation. We prove that for each majoritarian choice there is a unique consensus policy on progressivity and government size. We empirically validate the implication that the sign of the relationship between inequality and pro...
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عنوان ژورنال: SERIEs
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1869-4187,1869-4195
DOI: 10.1007/s13209-019-0198-4