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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18049| Title: | Endogenous distribution, politics, and growth |
| Keywords: | E62 D31 P16 O40 ddc:330 Median Voter Endogenous Growth Wealth Distribution Distributive Conflict Redistributive Policy Einkommensverteilung Verteilungstheorie Optimale Besteuerung Neue Wachstumstheorie Einkommensumverteilung Median Voter Theorie |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin |
| Description: | This paper generalizes the analysis of distributive con?ict, politics, and growth developed by by Alesina-Rodrik (1994). We construct a heterogenous-agent framework in which both growth and the distribution of wealth are endogenous. Due to adjustments in the distribution of wealth, the composition of factor ownership across households equalizes in the long run. This implies that the optimal tax rate is the same for all households and equals the growth maximizing tax rate. Hence, there is no distributive con?ict in the long run. When the model is augmented with a non-political redistributive policy, the model predicts that long run growth exhibits a negative monotonic relationship with respect to this policy, i.e., a redistributive policy that leads to a more equitable wealth distribution unambiguously reduces growth in the long run. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18049 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18049 ppn:36833144X |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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