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De Donder, Philippe
and Roemer, John E.
(2013)
An allegory of the political influence of the top 1%.
TSE Working Paper, n. 13-455, Toulouse
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Abstract
We study how rich shareholders can use their economic power to deregulate firms that they own, thus skewing the income distribution towards themselves. Agents differ in productivity and choose how much labor to supply. High productivity agents also own shares in the productive sector and thus earn capital income. All vote over a linear tax rate on (labor and capital) income whose proceeds are redistributed lump sum. Capital owners also lobby in order to ease the price cap imposed on the private firm. We solve analytically for the Kantian equilibrium of this lobbying game together with the majority voting equilibrium over the tax rate, and we perform simulations. We obtain numerically that, as the capital income distribution becomes more concentrated among the top productivity individuals, their increased lobbying effort generates efficiency as well as equity costs, with lower labor supply and lower average utility levels in society.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Language: | English |
| Date: | November 2013 |
| Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Kantian equilibrium, lobbying, political economy and regulatory capture |
| JEL Classification: | D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes - Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior H31 - Household |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Institution: | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2014 17:40 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2021 15:48 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:27798 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/15793 |
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