Endogenous Redistributive Cycles An Overlapping Generations Approach to Social Conflict and Cyclical Growth

Christiane Clemens and Maik Heinemann ()
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Maik Heinemann: Institute of Economics, University of Lüneburg

No 5, Working Paper Series in Economics from University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics

Abstract: This paper discusses the emergence of endogenous redistributive cycles in a stochastic growth model with incomplete asset markets and heterogeneous agents, where agents vote on the degree of progressivity in the tax-transfer-scheme. The model draws from Bénabou (1996) and ties the bias in the distribution of political power to the degree of inequality in the society, thereby triggering redistributive cycles which then give rise to a nonlinear, cyclical pattern of savings rates, growth and inequality over time.

Keywords: Inequality; growth; political cycles; redistribution; Hopf bifurcation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 E62 O41 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2005-03-17
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