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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013060
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766292
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Vertical Effects of Fiscal Rules - The Swiss Experience
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P. - CESifo - 2014
) provides little evidence that budget constraints at the cantonal level affect municipal finances and fiscal decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948867
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Conservation Contracts and Political Regimes
Harstad, Bård; Mideksa, Torben - CESifo - 2015
Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal conservation contract, (iii) when the donor prefers contracting with central rather than local governments, and (iv) how the donor’s presence may induce institutional change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273091
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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2009
decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013064
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The Economic Effects of Federalism and Decentralization - A Cross-Country Assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - CESifo - 2009
component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013947
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Regional Inequality and Decentralization - An Empirical Analysis
Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2011
This paper analyzes the impact of political and fiscal decentralization on regional inequalities using a unique data … that decentralization decreases regional inequalities in general. However, estimations using an interaction variable … approach imply that the effect depends on the level of economic development. While rich countries benefit from decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293485
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The Political Economy of the Standard Level of Services: The Role of Income Distribution
Fiorillo, Fabio; Sacchi, Agnese - CESifo - 2012
The theory of fiscal federalism points out that decentralisation should be pursued in order to fit differences in individual preferences. However, the presence of externalities and the need of providing merit goods to citizens suggest that centralisation is likely to produce more efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416120
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Decentralization and the Shadow Economy: Oates Meets Allingham-Sandmo
Bühn, Andreas; Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - CESifo - 2011
This paper studies the impact of decentralization on the shadow economy. We argue that decentralization may decrease … the size of the shadow economy mainly through two transmission channels: (1) Decentralization enhancing public sector … efficiency (efficiency effect), and (2) decentralization reducing the distance between bureaucrats and economic agents, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278126
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Fiscal Autonomy and Fiscal Sustainability: Subnational Taxation and Public Indebtedness in Contemporary Spain
Larin, Benjamin; Süssmuth, Bernd - CESifo - 2014
This study assesses fiscal sustainability in contemporary Spain at the regional level. Spain consists of 17 autonomous regions, two fiscal regimes differing in taxing autonomy, and two path-dependent types of communities with more and less legislatively recognized autonomy. Three of the 17...
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