median voter
A simple in-class experiment on the efficient production of the pure public good touching the median voter theorem
... the median voter theorem, when there are more then two candidates, may lead to a ...the median voter theorem’s hypotheses in the case of political elections where there are three ...
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A Behavioral Economic Study of Tax Rate Selection by the Median Voter: Can the Tax Rate Be Influenced by the Name of the Publicly Provided Private Good?
... the median income (L$640), is evaluated using a probit regression model that regresses a binary variable identifying whether an observation was from the individual whose submitted tax rate is the implemented tax ...
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Median voter model cannot solve all the problems of voting system
... The median voter theorem is one of the most prominent results of formal political theory and economics, and is widely used to study interactions between ...The median voter is the person in ...
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In uncertainty we trust: a median voter model with risk aversion
... where voter risk aversion towards uncertainty gives political incumbents a signifi cant advantage over their challengers, exacerbating the principal-agent problem between voters and ...in voter uncertainty ...
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Re examination of the Mayer Median Voter Model of Trade Policy
... the median voter among the set of effective voters of a low political right country has a higher income level than would be the case if the country had a better political rights ...
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The Politics of Consumption Taxes: Globalization and the Median Voter
... the median voter is expected to be far enough to the right, social democratic parties will be less constrained by economic globalization (in support of the Ward et ...
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Reconciling Observed Tariffs and the Median Voter Model
... the median voter ...the median voter model with specific factors, the relationship between tariffs and inequality is highly sensitive to the median voter’s share of each specific factor ...
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Preferences over public good, political delegation and leadership in tax competition
... political delegation in the presence of elected democracy. In our results, we show that in leader region median voter is the policy maker and follower region delegates the tax rate decision making to left ...
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Endogenous growth in a model with heterogeneous agents and voting on public goods
... the median voter theorem for steady-state equilibria, fully characterize steady-state equilibria and show that if the median voter dis- count factor is sufficiently low, the long-run rate of ...
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Tax competition and politics: double edged incentives revisited
... the median voter in a given country, the elasticity of supply of capital, formerly zero, is now positive, and so the marginal cost of public funds rises from unity to a value greater than unity, causing the ...
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Generalized Comparative Statics for Political Economy Models
... The seminal contributions of Hotelling (1929) , Black (1948) and Downs (1957) gave rise to the success in the Political Economy literature of the so- called Downsian models of political competition, which proved to be ...
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Inter jurisdictional migration and the size of government
... the median voter ...the median voter and has, therefore, a di- rect impact on public policy as explained by Meltzer and Richard ...poorer median voter who will increase ...
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Climate Policies and the Tax Interaction Effect, in Context
... The tax-interaction effect is, arguably, a lynchpin in the modern apparatus substantiating a trade-off between economic efficiency and environmental quality. In recent years, it has come into particular focus in ...
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A non normative theory of inflation and central bank independence
... This paper has departed from the observation that we lack a theory of central bank independence that can explain the stability record of the Bundesbank. Time-consistent monetary policy yields excessive ination even in ...
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Fair tax evasion and majority voting over redistributive taxation
... the median voter decides on the tax ...the median voter receives an unfairly low net wage, we show how introducing fair tax evasion affects the preferred tax ...the median voter ...
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Tax Competition and Strategic Delegation with Interregional Asymmetries in Capital Endowment and Income Inequality
... dian voter in country L may delegate the right to decide the tax rate to the ...the median voter in country L may delegate the right to decide the tax rate to the poor re- gardless of the asymmetry ...
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Referenda as a Catch 22
... Note that, given this result, which states that the authority r will be re-elected if and only if the median voter votes for its re-election, the probability of an authority r being re-e[r] ...
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Interest Group Lobbying on a Morality Policy Issue: The Case of Physician-Assisted Suicide in Michigan
... the median voter, with public opinion polls in Michigan showing that a majority supported PAS, it could benefit from increasing the salience of public opinion over a wide range of policy alternatives, and ...
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The Politics of Disinflation LEQS Discussion Paper No 127/2017 December 2017
... This case study of Sweden teaches us two important lessons. One is that the basic argument that links disinflation to relative shifts in aversion to unemployment and to inflation helps understand how inflation can remain ...
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Anarchy, Preferences, and Robust Political Economy
... We begin with an ideal-type 4 democracy: politicians are faithful agents of voters, are not constrained by constitutional limitations, and do not engage in vote trading across issues. At all times, that which commands ...
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