The Politics of Flat Taxes
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DOI: 10.26509/frbc-wp-201442r2
Note: First version December 2014, with the title, “Majority Voting: A Quantitative Investigation.” First revision September 2017 with the current title.
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- Daniel Carroll & Jim Dolmas & Eric Young, 2021. "The Politics of Flat Taxes," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 39, pages 174-201, January.
- Daniel R. Carroll & Jim Dolmas & Eric R. Young, 2017. "The Politics of Flat Taxes," Working Papers 201442R, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
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Keywords
Incomplete Markets; Voting; Essential Set; Inequality; Political Economy;JEL classification:
- D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2019-11-11 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-MAC-2019-11-11 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-PBE-2019-11-11 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2019-11-11 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2019-11-11 (Public Finance)
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