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Remittances, Banking Status and the Usage of Insurance Schemes

Crayen, Dorothee; Hainz, Christa; Martinez, Christiane … - CESifo - 2010

Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …

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Remittances and Financial Openness

Beine, Michel; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Vermeulen, Robert - CESifo - 2010

Remittances have greatly increased during recent years, becoming an important and reliable source of funds for many … developing countries. Therefore, there is a strong incentive for receiving countries to attract more remittances, especially … apply a two-step method akin to two stage least squares to deal with the endogeneity of remittances and potential …

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Temporary Migration Policies and Welfare of the Host and Source Countries: A Game-Theoretic Approach

Djajic, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - CESifo - 2009

This paper examines the interaction between migration policies of the host and source countries in the context of a model of guest-worker migration. For the host, the objective is to provide low-cost labor for its employers while avoiding illegal immigration. It optimizes over these objectives...

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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2009

An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there...

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Going NUTS: The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; … - CESifo - 2008

The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....

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Development of Local Public Finance in Europe

Friedrich, Peter; Gwiazda, Joanna; Nam, Chang Woon - CESifo - 2003

This paper investigates the development of local public finance in Germany, Switzerland, Poland and the United Kingdom. In this context important characteristics of municipal expenditures and revenues are examined in these countries. Differences in government structure (i.e. unitary or federal)...

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Local Public Good Provision, Municipal Consolidation, and National Transfers

Dur, Robert; Staal, Klaas - CESifo - 2007

We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a region comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighboring district, there is underprovision of public goods in both the city and...

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Looking for Appropriate Forms of Intergovernmental Transfers for Municipalities in Transition Economies

Nam, Chang Woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2001

Intergovernmental transfers can be either conditional or unconditional with regard to the autonomy of local governments in spending such financial means. Although fiscal decentralisation has recently been quite pronounced in Eastern European transition countries, the dominance of a purpose- and...

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Municipal Finance in Poland, the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic and Hungary: Institutional Framework and Recent Development

Nam, Chang Woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2001

The recent process of political and economic transformation in eastern European countries has not only contributed to the decentralisation of political structure but also significantly enhanced the fiscal autonomy of municipalities in these countries. In this context many similar types of public...

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Significance and Determination of Fees for Municipal Finance

Friedrich, Peter; Kaltschuetz, Anita; Nam, Chang Woon - CESifo - 2004

The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique features of the intergovernmental fiscal system. In general municipal expenditures are rapidly growing in European countries. On the other hand local tax increases are not easily...

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