Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Pande, Rohini (1998) Read my lips : the political economy of information transmission. Theoretical Economics; TE/1998/355 (TE/98/355). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.
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Abstract
The paper studies credible information transmission by governments. A group of heterogenous individuals have to make private investment and labour supply decisions while relying on the government for information about investment returns. The government consists of an elected citizen who chooses a redistributive strategy in addition to providing information. We give conditions under which the outcome leads to overor under-investment in high return activities and the outcome is Pareto efficient.
Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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Official URL: | http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk |
Additional Information: | © 1998 by Timothy Besley and Rohini Pande |
Divisions: | Economics STICERD |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
JEL classification: | H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H23 - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H - Public Economics > H1 - Structure and Scope of Government > H10 - General O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development D - Microeconomics > D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty > D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information |
Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2007 |
Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 04:50 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/2169 |
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