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Стратегия развития системы городского самоуправления в новых экономических условиях
Kaluzhsky, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Article about the problems of municipal governments related to fiscal consolidation in the Russian regions and the construction of the vertical of power during the first presidency of Vladimir Putin. The author analyzes the impact of the decline of the financial base of the city governments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109225
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Measuring fiscal stance for the United Kingdom, 1920-1990
van der Eng, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it presents a very concise way of measuring fiscal stance. This procedure is based on the assumption that the ‘neutral change’ in the government budget can best be simulated with a long-term approximation of the underlying trend of total output....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258592
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Taxes, lawyers, and the decline of witch trials in France
Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper explores the rise of the fiscal state in the early modern period and its impact on legal capacity. To measure legal capacity, we establish that witchcraft trials were more likely to take place where the central state had weak legal insti- tutions. Combining data on the geographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325592
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China's reform of intergovernmental fiscal relations in the light of European experiences
Spahn, Paul Bernd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
The paper looks a China's institutional reforms in public finances against the background of European experiences. Particular attention is given to Switzerland and Germany where there is a high degree of consensus forming mechanisms. These federations are also characterized by concepts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837511
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Un repaso de conceptos sobre capacidad y esfuerzo fiscal, y su aplicación para los gobiernos locales mexicanos.
Sour, Laura - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In order to analyze the transfers policy among different levels of government, first it is necessary to calculate the … Mexico have made the greater fiscal effort given the conditional as noncondicional transfers policy in the country during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110383
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Warfare, Fiscal Capacity, and Performance
Dincecco, Mark; Prado, Mauricio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We exploit differences in casualties sustained in pre-modern wars to estimate the impact of fiscal capacity on economic performance. In the past, states fought different amounts of external conflicts, of various lengths and magnitudes. To raise the revenues to wage wars, states made fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113133
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Neoliberalism and patterns of economic performance: 1980 to 2000
Cohen, Joseph N.; Centeno, Miguel A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Neoliberal discourse often produces the impression that the world has undergone a wholesale shift toward laissez-faire and that this shift has produced economic prosperity. This article examines national economic data to discern the degree to which (1) governments have in fact retreated from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560959
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Transferencias a los Gobiernos Locales: una mirada a las fuentes de su desigualdad
Mauro, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
incomes (transfers from Central Government) and it is found that they are all highly unequal. This outcome implies that not … only mining taxes transfers are unequal, but also the rest of sources. So, it is necessary to reduce inequality in all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837062
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Propuestas para mejorar el Federalismo Fiscal en Argentina: Un nuevo esquema para la distribución del Impuesto a las Ganancias
Bertello, Nicolas; Uña, Gerardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
different political signs. Income Tax, and prior to the partnership, we realize transfers to the pension system, the Suburban … created new others. Virtually all such transfers are no longer justified or become outdated. First, the reversion of the …. This contributes to a scheme that increases the dependence of the provinces of federal transfers and lessens their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526959
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Taxes, Transfers and the Distribution of Employment in Mexico
Alonso Ortiz, Jorge; Leal Ordóñez, Julio C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
countries. In this paper we study the interaction between the tax and transfers system and the size and composition of informal … distribution of the transfers between formal and informal sector workers, changes in the size of the transfer system, and changes … in the progressivity of taxes and transfers (pending). Our model is able to capture key features of Mexican labor markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151618