Consumption and investment are the largest contributors to national income in most countries. Indonesia is one of the countries with the world's largest population, so the largest state revenue comes from consumption and investment, a sector expected to be a driver of the economy. The entry of...

Decentralized taxation and commuting affect numerous dimensions of economic activity, but how they jointly shape residential decisions and spatial income sorting is still not well understood. We develop a structural model of individual location choices in a fiscally decentralized monocentric...

The argument over fiscal decentralization and carbon dioxide emission (CO2) reduction has received much attention. However, evidence to back this claim is limited. Economic theory predicts that fiscal decentralization affects environmental quality, but the specifics of this relationship are...

In a model with two regions, one rich and one poor, the allocation of net public spending is studied whereby the initial political process by which taxation and government expenditures are determined is centralized and not democratic. In stable autocracy, decentralization reforms depend on a...

Revenue generation is concerned with all financial incomes of government that include the greater part of its proceeds that are related to monies generated in the economy while fiscal federalism are monetary principles and general framework designed for assigning functions to the different...

In the context of on-demand ridehailing, we propose a heuristic matching algorithm where a passenger can share their ride with one more passenger while experiencing a high-quality service with a minimal increase in travel time. To evaluate the performance, we implemented the algorithm in a...

Public investment spending declined steadily in advanced economies during the last three decades. Germany is a case in point where the aggregate decline coincided with growing inequality in investments across districts. What explains the variation in local investment spending? We assembled a...