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Fiscal Rules for Sub-central Governments : Design and Impact
Sutherland, Douglas - 2005
Against a background of mounting demands for spending on services provided by sub-central governments, this paper examines how fiscal rules can help to ensure that pressure on resources is minimised and available resources are used efficiently. Drawing on questionnaire responses and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445608
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Fiscal rules for sub-central governments : Design and impact
Sutherland, Douglas - 2018
Against a background of mounting demands for spending on services provided by sub-central governments, this paper examines how fiscal rules can help to ensure that pressure on resources is minimised and available resources are used efficiently. Drawing on questionnaire responses and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454335
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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis
Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
redistribution and a modest effect of two year led inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544770
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The spending power of sub-central governments : A pilot study
Bach, Steffen - 2018
This pilot study presents indicators that assess sub-central government (SCG) spending power by policy area. Traditional indicators – such as the share of SCG in total government spending – are often misleading as they underestimate the impact of central government regulation on sub-central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454129
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Market mechanisms in public service provision
Blöchliger, Hansjörg - 2018
This paper compares and analyses the use of market mechanisms in core sub-central policy areas, namely education, health care, transport, social protection, and environment. Arrangements like tendering, outsourcing, user choice and competition, user fees and performance-related funding can help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454570
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Fiscal Rules for Sub-central Governments: Design and Impact
Sutherland, Douglas; Price, Robert W.R.; Joumard, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
Against a background of mounting demands for spending on services provided by sub-central governments, this paper examines how fiscal rules can help to ensure that pressure on resources is minimised and available resources are used efficiently. Drawing on questionnaire responses and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046262
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Do Parties Matter for Economic Outcomes? A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 6 (2008) 5, pp. 1037-1056
A long-standing issue in political economics is to what extent party control makes a difference in determining fiscal and economics policies. This question is very difficult to answer empirically because parties are not randomly selected to govern political entities. This article uses a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005690513
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Decentralization and Local Governments' Performance: How Does Fiscal Autonomy Affect Spending Efficiency?
Boetti, Lorenzo; Piacenza, Massimiliano; Turati, Gilberto - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 68 (2012) 3, pp. 269-302
All over the world, recent legislative reforms share the goal of increasing fiscal autonomy of lower tiers of governments. The aim of this policy is to reduce vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI) and enhance the efficiency in the provision of public services, via increased accountability of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561848
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023678
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Environmental domain tagging in the OECD PINE database
Chhun, Bopha - 2024
This paper presents tagging methodologies for 22 environmental domains in the OECD Policy INstruments for the Environment (PINE) database, including seven domains on environmental protection (air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, solid waste, ozone layer, noise and radiation), six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014568090