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Buettner, Thiess; Janeba, Eckhard - CESifo - 2013

This paper explores the conditions under which decentralization and fiscal competition lead to a policy of subsidizing …

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Minimum Standards, Fixed Costs and Taxing Autonomy of SubnationalGovernments

Seitz, Helmut - CESifo - 2008

The paper examines the question how fiscally strong and fiscally weak states respond to taxing autonomy at the state level, a subject that is currently under debate in Germany where states do have virtually no power to tax. We use a simple theoretical model that incorporates state surtaxes on...

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Looking for Appropriate Forms of Intergovernmental Transfers for Municipalities in Transition Economies

Nam, Chang Woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2001

Intergovernmental transfers can be either conditional or unconditional with regard to the autonomy of local governments in spending such financial means. Although fiscal decentralisation has recently been quite pronounced in Eastern European transition countries, the dominance of a purpose- and...

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Municipal Finance in Poland, the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic and Hungary: Institutional Framework and Recent Development

Nam, Chang Woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2001

The recent process of political and economic transformation in eastern European countries has not only contributed to the decentralisation of political structure but also significantly enhanced the fiscal autonomy of municipalities in these countries. In this context many similar types of public...

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Significance and Determination of Fees for Municipal Finance

Friedrich, Peter; Kaltschuetz, Anita; Nam, Chang Woon - CESifo - 2004

The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique features of the intergovernmental fiscal system. In general municipal expenditures are rapidly growing in European countries. On the other hand local tax increases are not easily...

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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 …

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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....

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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 …

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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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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 …

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