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Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions

Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin Mattias - CESifo - 2013

We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We explore the link between the allocation and nations’ contributions that occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and...

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Environmental Tax Reform in a Federation with Rent-Induced Migration

Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - CESifo - 2015

We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...

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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2009

Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...

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The Economic Effects of Federalism and Decentralization - A Cross-Country Assessment

Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - CESifo - 2009

federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal … component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … institutional details do, indeed, matter. Different aspects of federalism impact on the outcome variables to different degrees. This …

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Decentralization and Natural Disasters

Goodspeed, Timothy J. - CESifo - 2013

This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one level of government. The next section discusses...

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Population Mobility and Transboundary Environmental Problems

Hoel, Michael; Shapiro, Perry - CESifo - 2001

A standard result in the literature on environmental economics is that efficient environmental policies regulating transboundary pollution will be adopted only if there is interjurisdictional coordination. Efficient policies can be adopted as a result of interregional treaties or mandated by a...

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The Political Economy of Regional Integration Projects at Borders where Rich and Poor Meet: The Role of Cross-Border Shopping and Community Sorting

Dascher, Kristof; Haupt, Alexander - CESifo - 2008

At borders where rich and poor countries meet, services prices differ hugely. In principle, price differentials could be exploited to mutual benefit, offering improved job opportunities to the poor as well as better shopping opportunities to the rich. However, cross-border shopping is often...

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How Do Local Governments Decide on Public Policy in Fiscal Federalism? Tax vs. Expenditure Optimization

Köthenbürger, Marko - CESifo - 2008

governments and, thereby, enable a more precise characterization of local government behaviour in fiscal federalism. …

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Decentralized Taxation and the Size of Government: Evidence from Swiss State and Local Governments

Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard; Schaltegger, … - CESifo - 2003

According to the Leviathan-Model, fiscal federalism is seen as a binding constraint on a revenue-maximizing government …. The competitive pressure of fiscal federalism is supposed to reduce public sector size as compared to unitary states … possible to investigate different mechanisms by which fiscal federalism may influence government size. The results indicate …

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Choosing Club Membership under Tax Competition and Free Riding

Park, Hyun; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - CESifo - 2003

We study the choice of club membership, when member-countries’ national governments set their tax policies non-cooperatively. Federal policy (in the form of club membership) has a higher constitutional status than national policies (in the form of income tax rates). This allows federal policy...

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