2006
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2005.06.007
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Capital taxation and electoral accountability

Abstract: This paper investigates the role of performance voting in solving the capital levy problem. In a representative democracy, voters can use elections to protect their property by holding politicians accountable for the tax policies they implement. We characterize the set of tax policies that can be sustained by symmetric performance standards and show when this set contains the second-best (Ramsey) tax policy. D

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“…Instead the politician has to exert a positive e¤ort that decreases his per period ego rent to implement the new project. 6 Citizens care only about the policy outcome. Their payo¤ in period t is represented by the function:…”
Section: The Economic Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Instead the politician has to exert a positive e¤ort that decreases his per period ego rent to implement the new project. 6 Citizens care only about the policy outcome. Their payo¤ in period t is represented by the function:…”
Section: The Economic Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Aidt and Magris (2006) show how to do the analysis in a political agency model when citizens do not coordinate their voting behavior.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Aidt and Dutta (2009) argue that it is more likely to have electoral uncertainty embedded in the political system when turnout shocks are correlated within groups and not between groups and when the di¤erences in group sizes are small. 4 The game unfolds in the following way: At the beginning of each electoral term, each group of citizens announces the performance standards that the incumbent needs to satisfy to get their support in the next election. The standards are chosen by the two groups of citizens noncooperative and simultaneously and are denoted b…”
Section: The Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Aidt and Magris (2006) show how to do the analysis in a political agency model when citizens do not coordinate their voting behavior.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…People have good reason to question whether the Portuguese government behaved optimally since they Table 1: The cost of attracting investment: Examples of incentives given to investors in Europe can hardly understand why a national-welfare-maximizing government made such a generous offer to foreign investors. 2 This puzzle stimulates our research. In this paper, we study the impact of special interest lobbying on competition between countries for FDI.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%