Counterbalance Economics (CBE): Harnessing Aggregate Markups to Finance Voucher-Based Inequality Reduction [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]
Дата публикации: 15-06-2026 01:23:40
Background Corporate markups have risen markedly since the 1980s, widening the gap between profits and wages and fuelling income inequality. Counterbalance Economics (CBE) proposes a market-mediated voucher mechanism that recycles part of markup rents into firm-redeemable purchasing power for low-income households. Methodology We assemble an unbalanced panel of 12 countries (1982-2016) combining World Bank/LIS Gini indices, aggregate markups, macro controls, and within-sample policy analogues. Because four later policy cases occur after 2016, empirical identification rests only on China, Malaysia and Australia; Germany, France, Sweden and Brazil are discussed as post-sample policy analogues rather than sources of estimation variation. Results Markups are positively associated with inequality, while the markup-policy interaction is negative in the preferred specification. These estimates should be interpreted as exploratory evidence on rent-capture and in-kind redistribution analogues. Conclusions CBE remains a potentially scalable complement to progressive taxation and universal public services, but its viability depends on institutional capacity, treatment coverage, inflation management, regulatory enforcement, and compatibility with existing tax-transfer systems. Future research should use microdata, sector-level markups, pilot implementation and fully reproducible code to test the mechanism directly.
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