Power Fluctuations and Political Economy

We study (constrained) Pareto efficient allocations in a dynamic production economy where the group that holds political power decides the allocation of resources. For high discount factors, the economy converges to a first-best allocation where labor supply decisions are not distorted. For low disc...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Golosov, Michael, Tsyvinski, Aleh
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61784
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491