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Homevoters vs. Leasevoters: A Spatial Analysis of Airport Effects

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Maennig, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2013

We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...

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Application of Regionally Varying Additionality Degrees in the Practice of EU Cohesion Policy

Nam, Chang Woon; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2010

The additionality principle says that the funds of the European Union should not replace, but be an addition to national regional policy funds. The benchmark for the co-funding is that the EU bears 50% of total costs associated with regional projects eligible for EU support. In some regions,...

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One Size Fits All? Decentralization, Corruption, and the Monitoring of Bureaucrats

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - CESifo - 2009

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

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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. …

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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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Tax Competition, Elastic Labor Supply, and Growth

Hange, Ulrich - CESifo - 2008

In this paper we investigate the effects of tax competition in a simple endogenous growth model with elastic labor supply. Our analysis focuses on two issues. First, we show that all taxes, i.e. on capital, labor, and consumption, are harmful for growth. Second, we derive the optimal tax policy....

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Fiscal Policy During Business Cycles in Developing Countries: The Case of Africa

Leibfritz, Willi; Rottmann, Horst - CESifo - 2013

Fiscal positions of African countries have improved significantly during the past decade. Higher economic growth, better terms of trade, improved donor support notably through debt relief and better control of expenditure contributed to this improvement. But at the same time government revenue...

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Stable and Sustainable Global Tax Coordination with Leviathan Governments

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2014

Itaya et al. (2014) study the conditions for sustainability and stability of capital tax coordination in a repeated game model with tax-revenue maximizing governments. One of their major results is that the grand tax coalition is never stable and sustainable. The purpose of this note is to prove...

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Lost in America: Evidence on Local Sales Taxes from National Panel Data

Agrawal, David - CESifo - 2014

This paper studies comprehensive national panel data of local option sales taxes at the monthly frequency. I calculate state-by-month population weighted averages of local sales tax rates. I document ten stylized facts concerning the time series patterns and spatial dynamics of local sales...

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Taxes in Cities

Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - CESifo - 2014

Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we review the literature on a number of salient...

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