Political economy of tobacco taxation in Pakistan: A missing link in understanding FCTC implementation

political economy of china in central asia

this research is about the political economy of china in central asia. in this research the political & economic interactions affected on chinas political economy in central asia are examined. chinas goal of presence in central asia including political-security, economic and energy goals is described in one part. in another part, the trade relations between china and central asian countries ar...

The political economy of tobacco taxation

Political economy of Ramsey taxation

We study the dynamic taxation of capital and labor in the neoclassical growth model under the assumption that taxes and public good provision are decided by a self-interested politician who cannot commit to policies. Citizens can imperfectly control the politician using elections similar to a political agency model. As in the standard dynamic taxation models, we only allow for linear taxes on c...

Political Economy of Intermediate Goods Taxation

We generalize the Diamond–Mirrlees production efficiency theorem, that there should be no taxes on sectors producing pure intermediate goods, to an environment with political economy constraints. In our economy, allocations and taxation are decided by self-interested politicians without the power to commit to future policies. The Diamond–Mirrlees production efficiency result holds even when pol...

On the Political Economy of Income Taxation

The literatures dealing with voting, optimal income taxation, and implementation are integrated here to address the problem of voting over income taxes. In contrast with previous articles, general nonlinear income taxes that affect the labor-leisure decisions of consumers who work and vote are allowed. Uncertainty plays an important role in that the government does not know the true realization...