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Leviathans, Federal Transfers, and the Cartelization Hypothesis
Koethenbuerger, Marko - CESifo - 2004
Federal fiscal arrangements are argued to give rise to tacit collusion among competing Leviathans (Brennan and Buchanan, The Power to Tax, CUP, 1980). Though frequently encountered in academic and policy discussions, the cartelization hypothesis has rarely been scrutinized formally. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406161
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766067
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Artificial Time Inconsistency as a Remedy for the Race to the Bottom (new title: Delayed Integration as a Possible Remedy for the Race to the Bottom)
Weichenrieder, Alfons; Busch, Oliver - CESifo - 2005
A long-standing concern in the literature has been that household mobility implies a serious threat to the viability of redistributive taxation. This paper considers the effects of deferred integration of migrants into the redistributive system of the target country. In a model of symmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405870
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Developing Country Second-Mover Advantage in Competition over Environmental Standards and Taxes
Groenert, Valeska; Zissimos, Benjamin - CESifo - 2011
We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over environmental standards and taxes, the developing country may have a ‘second-mover advantage.’ In our model, firms do not unanimously prefer lower environmental-standard levels. We introduce this feature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395306
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Educational Federalism and the Quality Effects of Tuition Fees
Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2010
This paper investigates how the abolishment of a ban on tuition fees affects the quality of higher education with centralized and decentralized decision making. It is shown that a marginal introduction of tuition fees fully crowds out public funds under centralization, whereas educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671689
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Government Decentralization as a Commitment
Gradstein, Mark - CESifo - 2014
. Building on insights provided by the “second generation” wave of research on fiscal federalism, this paper proposes a unified … policies will reflect regional preferences, thereby boosting individual productive effort incentives. This theory may explain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775092
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Panel Cointegration Tests on the Fiscal Sustainability of German Laender
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - CESifo - 2014
This paper provides new evidence on the sustainability of public finances in German states (Laender) by exploiting a newly compiled database covering the years 1950]2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability by applying gsecond generationh panel cointegration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067195
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Fiscal Sustainability of the German Laender - Time Series Evidence
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - CESifo - 2014
In this paper we analyze the sustainability of public finances in the states (Laender) of the Federal Republic of Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender and 1991 to 2011 for East German Laender, respectively. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067196
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634082
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877969