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Regional investment and individual redistribution in a federation

Kessing, Sebastian; Schneider, Benny - 2014

We study the strategic incentives of regional governments to allocate their budget to public investment and to public consumption expenditures against the background of an incentive-compatible redistribution policy set by the central government. Regional investment changes the productivity...

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Implementing equal living conditions in a federation

Wagener, Andreas - 1998

Critical-level (CL) utilitarianism with both fixed and variable critical levels is applied to the problem of redistribution in a federation with free mobility. We are interested in intra-regional inequality when redistribution policies are organized decentrally in a federation. Due to free...

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On the endogenous allocation of decision powers in federal structures

Lorz, Oliver (contributor); Willmann, Gerald (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Towards a European constitution : fiscal federalism and the allocation of economic competences

Stehn, Jürgen - 2002

the EU and the mernber states. It takes the theory of fiscal federalism as a starting point for an optimal allocation of … economic competences. The main message of the theory is that a transfer of econornie competences from a lower to a higher …

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Reforming federalism German style : a first step in the right direction

Döring, Thomas (contributor); Voigt, Stefan (contributor) - 2006

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Federalism and accountability with distorted election choices

Kessing, Sebastian - 2009

This study analyzes the interaction between distorted election choices and the architecture of government with a focus on the implications for the accountability of politicians. Contrasting centralized with decentralized political systems, it is shown that centralization is likely to result in...

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The new institutional economics of antitrust and regulation

Bickenbach, Frank; Kumkar, Lars; Soltwedel, Rüdiger - 1999

Institutional Economics (NIE) for analyzing the economics of complex vertical and horizontal coordination problems. It sketches the …

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Regulation of Europe's network industries : the perspective of the new economic theory of federalism

Bickenbach, Frank - 2000

economics of regulation, it then points out generic information and transaction cost problems of regulatory policy making. An … transaction-cost-political approaches. There has been some progress in recent years in developing such a "new economic theory of … federalism". Basic ideas and some insights of this theory are discussed with regard to the appropriate "federal" allocation of …

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