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Fiscal Federalism and Electoral Accountability
Aidt, Toke; Dutta, Jayasri - CESifo - 2010
accountability. We also show that decentralization can only Pareto dominate centralization in economies with negative externalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583690
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405770
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Voting, Lobbying, and the Decentralization Theorem
Lockwood, Benjamin - CESifo - 2007
This paper revisits the fiscal "decentralization theorem", by relaxing the role of the assumption that governments are …) centralization can welfare-dominate decentralization even if there are no externalities and regions are heterogenous; (ii …) decentralization can welfare-dominate centralization even if there are positive externalities and regions are homogenous. The intuition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181589
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Free-riding or Internalizing? An Opportunistic View on Decentralization versus Centralization
Fiorillo, Fabio; Sacchi, Agnese - CESifo - 2011
comparing decentralized and centralized system. As in the recent Second Generation Theory (SGT) of fiscal federalism (Seabright … production cost of the public good in each region, a different trade-off - from the traditional and new theory of fiscal …. Given this general framework, the convenience of decentralization versus centralization mainly depends on the interaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833915
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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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Transport Subsidies, System Choice, and Urban Sprawl
Brueckner, Jan K. - CESifo - 2003
This paper analyzes the effect of transport subsidies on the spatial expansion of cities, asking whether subsidies are a source of undesirable urban sprawl. While the cost-reducing effect of transport subsidies is offset by a higher general tax burden (which reduces the demand for space), the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181603
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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
decentralization leads to fewer tax revenue but higher user charges. Thus, revenue decentralization favors a smaller size of government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766067
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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity
Teulings, Coenraad N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, … - CESifo - 2014
The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888446
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The Power of a Bad Example - A Field Experiment in Household Garbage Disposal
Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - CESifo - 2014
Field-experimental studies have shown that people litter more in more littered environments. Inspired by these findings, many cities around the world have adopted policies to quickly remove litter. While such policies may prevent people from following the bad example of litterers, they may also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764300
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Democracy with Group Identity
Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015
Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role of group decisiveness into voting incentives and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212080