Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2014
We study partisan favoritism in the allocation of intergovernmental transfers. Our dataset combines local council election data with fiscal data on grant allocations in the German state of Hesse. Our identification strategy is a regression discontinuity design that relies on a perturbation...