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Turning out for redistribution: the effect of voter turnout on top marginal tax rates
Public Choice, 2016 I investigate the impact of voter turnout on top marginal tax rates in OECD countries between 1974 and 2013. I find that higher turnout leads to higher taxes for top earners, a result broadly consistent with the median voter theorem.
N. Sabet
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Integrated location–inventory planning for slow‐moving demands with waiting time limitations
International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.Abstract This paper studies a stochastic facility location problem integrated with inventory and transportation decisions (SFLPIT) for supply chains with slow‐moving stock‐keeping units (SKUs). Local stores often avoid maintaining such SKUs, resulting in customer demand being fulfilled directly by a central distribution center (DC), where the ...
Jie Chu +4 more
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Brazilian Democracy and the Power of “Old” Theories of Party Competition
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2008 Brazilian politics has been usually analyzed as a case full of pathologies by scholars and political journalists alike. Fragmentation, volatility, clientelism and inefficiency have become bywords for describing the performance of Brazil’s political ...
Fabiano Santos
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Educational system, income inequality and growth: the median voter's decision
, 2005 I analyze a long run educational policy as a mechanism to close the income gap among low, median and high-income families. If the choice is made endogenous by the use of the median voter theorem, the results are as follow: i) public education system ...
Jo o Dias
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines peasant and Indigenous movements in Mexico since Morena's rise to power in 2018 through the lens of collective empowerment theory, a theory of political‐cultural formation. Beyond offering an empirical assessment, the theory is refined and formalized through an analysis of these movements and their relationship to ...
Gerardo Otero
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Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To assess perceived patient safety competencies among nursing students and to examine their associations with their perceptions regarding clinical learning environment and unfinished nursing care. Design An international comparative cross‐sectional study.
Dominika Kohanová +9 more
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Strategic Stake Acquisitions in Rival Firms: Common vs. Cross‐Ownership
The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study how a blockholder who controls a firm should acquire a minority stake in a rival: directly, creating common ownership, or indirectly through the controlled firm, creating cross‐ownership. Common ownership generates stronger internalization of competitive externalities and allows the blockholder to capture the resulting gains without ...
Vincenzo Denicolò, Fausto Panunzi
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Contingent capital: A tale of two valuations
Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the valuation gap between buyers and sellers of insurers' contingent capital, driven by asymmetric exposures to tax benefits, capital injections, and bankruptcy costs. We develop a novel Twin‐Tree Model with Jumps (TTMJ) that models the insurer's asset value dynamics by incorporating catastrophe risk, insolvency risk ...
Tian‐Shyr Dai +3 more
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Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract This paper introduces a multi‐stage Overlapping Generations (OLG) model of workers and retirees, segmented by disability status and eligibility for Disability Pension (DP) benefits. Extending Gertler (1999) with progressive disability stages of distinct productivity and transition probabilities, and calibrated to US data, the model generates ...
Hangsuck Lee +3 more
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Journal of Time Series Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper deals with the construction of a synthetic indicator of economic growth, obtained by projecting a quarterly measure of aggregate economic activity, namely gross domestic product (GDP), into the space spanned by a finite number of smooth principal components, representative of the medium‐to‐long‐run component of economic growth of a ...
Alessandro Giovannelli +2 more
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