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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System
Brown, Charles - 1985
This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...
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Education, Welfare, and the "New" Federalism : State Budgeting in a Federalist Public Economy
Craig, Steven G. - 1985
President Reagan's proposal for a "New Federalism" raises a fundamental challenge to our current structure of Federal …-state-local fiscal relations.This research examInes the lIkely consequences of the New Federalism for fiscal allocations by state … and more on tax relief and the numerous other state activities. Second, the New Federalism, as it relaxes the spending …
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Evaluating the Efficiency and Equity of Federal Fiscal Equalization
Albouy, David - 2010
. Locational inefficiencies cost Canada 0.41 percent of income annually and cause over-funded provinces to have populations 31 …
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Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance
Levitt, Steven D. - 1994
This paper tests several theories of the effects of congressional representation on state economic growth. States that were represented by very senior Democratic congressmen grew more quickly during the 1953-1990 period than states that were represented by more junior congressional delegations....
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Fiscal Rules, Bailouts, and Reputation in Federal Governments
Dovis, Alessandro - 2017
Expectations of bailouts by central governments incentivize overborrowing by local governments. In this paper, we ask if fiscal rules can correct these incentives to overborrow when central governments cannot commit and if these rules will arise in equilibrium. We address these questions in a...
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Fiscal Federalism and Legislative Malapportionment : Causal Evidence from Independent but Related Natural Experiments
Galiani, Sebastian - 2014
We exploit three natural experiments in Argentina in order to study the role of legislative malapportionment on the biased federal tax sharing scheme prevalent in the country. We do not find support to attribute it to legislative malapportionment during periods when democratic governments were...
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Competition, Harmonization and Redistribution : Corporate Taxes in Switzerland
Brülhart, Marius; Köthenbürger, Marko; Krapf, Matthias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Switzerland could be considered as a test case for international corporate-tax policy coordination. It is a federation of 26 fiscally autonomous cantons that have been taxing corporate profits more or less independently for over a century. We document and discuss corporate taxation in...
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Intergovernmental Grants and Policy Competition : Concepts, Institutions, and Evidence
Clemens, Jeffrey; Veuger, Stan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
the literature on the role of intergovernmental grants in systems of fiscal federalism. Second, we provide an updated look … directions for future research on the economics of fiscal federalism and the role of intergovernmental grants as policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287352
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Fiscal Policy and Monetary Union : Is There a Tradeoff between Federalism and Budgetary Restrictions?
Eichengreen, Barry - 1996
The Maastricht Treaty on Europe Union features an Excessive Deficit Procedure limiting the freedom to borrow of governments participating in the European monetary union. One justification is to prevent states from over- borrowing and demanding a bailout which could divert the European Central...
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