Redistribution, Taxes and the Median Voter

B-Tier
Journal: Review of Economic Dynamics
Year: 2006
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Pages: 211-223

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Abstract

We study a simple model of production, accumulation, and redistribution, where agents are heterogeneous in their initial wealth, and a sequence of redistributive tax rates is voted upon. Though the policy is infinite-dimensional, we prove that a median voter theorem holds if households have identical, Gorman aggregable preferences; furthermore, the tax policy preferred by the median voter has the "bang-bang" property. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:red:issued:v:9:y:2006:i:2:p:211-223
Journal Field
Macro
Author Count
2
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2026-01-24