Tax Contracts and Elections
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- Gersbach, Hans & Schneider, Maik T., 2012. "Tax contracts and elections," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 56(7), pages 1461-1479.
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Keywords
political contracts; elections; government formation; tax promise;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2010-01-16 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-PBE-2010-01-16 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2010-01-16 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2010-01-16 (Public Finance)
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