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Redistribution and Economic Growth in Integrated Economies

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  • Rehme, Günther

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Many theoretical models show that redistribution causes low growth or capital outflows even though empirically redistribution and growth are often found to be positively associated across countries. This paper argues that tax competition and the danger of capital outflows leads optimizing governments to pursue high growth, no redistribution policies in technologically similar economies. However, the government of a technologically superior economy may attract foreign and domestically owned capital and may have relatively higher GDP growth and more resources for redistribution than in a closed economy. Thus, redistributing governments may have a relatively stronger interest in technological advance or high economic integration. The results imply that one may well observe a positive association between redistribution and growth across countries.

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Paper provided by Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Institute of Economics (VWL) in its series Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute of Economics (VWL) with number 21580.

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Publication status: Published in Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics . 141 (2004-11)
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Cited by:
  1. G? Rehme, 2004. "Endogenous Policy and Cross-Country Growth Empirics," Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings 262, Econometric Society.
  2. Rehme, Günther, 2007. "Endogenous (Re-)Distributive Policies and Economic Growth: A Comparative Static Analysis," Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics 35714, Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Institute of Economics (VWL).
  3. Rehme, Günther, 2006. "Economic growth and (re-)distributive policies in a non-cooperative world," Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute of Economics (VWL) 25541, Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Institute of Economics (VWL).

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