Distributive politics and economic growth: the Markovian Stackelberg solution
Author(s) -
Ines Lindner,
Holger Strulik
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
economic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.572
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1432-0479
pISSN - 0938-2259
DOI - 10.1007/s00199-003-0367-2
Subject(s) - stackelberg competition , distributive property , public finance , mathematical economics , economics , differential (mechanical device) , government (linguistics) , mathematics , macroeconomics , pure mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , engineering , aerospace engineering
We generalize the result of Alesina and Rodrik (1994) by showing that their static solution is also a time consistent Stackelberg solution of a differential game between the government and the median voter. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2004Economic growth, Inequality, Differential game, Time-consistency.,
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