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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.
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Received: 11 June 2001, Revised: 7 February 2003,
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O15, O40, E61, C73.
We would like to thank Claus Peter Ortlieb, Nikolaus A. Siegfried, and two anonymous referees for useful comments. The first version of this work was written while Holger Strulik was Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, U.K. A research grant of the European Commission is gratefully acknowledged. Correspondence to: H. Strulik
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Lindner, I., Strulik, H. Distributive politics and economic growth: the Markovian Stackelberg solution. Economic Theory 23, 439–444 (2004) (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-003-0367-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-003-0367-2