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Success in the University Admission Process in Germany: Regional Provenance Matters

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

School education in Germany is under the responsibility of the federal states and as a consequence average grades differ widely across regions. Since school leavers apply nationwide for admission to university, regional provenance may thus matter a lot for the success probability in the...

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When Can We Trust Population Thresholds in Regression Discontinuity Designs?

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

A recent literature has used variation just around deterministic legislative population thresholds to identify the causal effects of institutional changes. This paper reviews the use of regression discontinuity designs using such population thresholds. Our concern involves three arguments: (1)...

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Fiscal Federalism and Financial Resources for Regional Development - Co-operative and Competitive Models: The International Experience - an Example for Russia?

Seidel, Bernhard; Schrooten, Mechthild - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

In Western economies, the concrete design of fiscal federalism is determined by the status the federation grants to … efficiency gains offered by fiscal federalism, the vertical co-ordination of revenue and expenditure responsibilities between the …

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Finding Your Right (or Left) Partner to Merge

Bruns, Benjamin; Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Abel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

We study political determinants of municipality amalgamations during a boundary reform in the German state of Brandenburg, which reduced the number of municipalities from 1,489 to 421. The analysis is conducted using data on the political decision makers as well as fiscal and socio-economic...

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Fiscal Competition, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and the Composition of Public Spending

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyses the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labour. Each group of workers benefits...

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Incumbency, Party Identity and Governmental Lead: Evidence for Heterogeneous Incumbency Effects for Germany

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

Do incumbents in an election have an advantage, and if so, are these advantages heterogeneous across parties or government and opposition? We first present a theoretical discussion on the possible heterogeneity of incumbency effects in a pure two-party system. Then, we estimate the incumbency...

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Incumbency as the Major Advantage: The Electoral Advantage for Parties of Incumbent Mayors

Freier, Ronny - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper provides empirical evidence on the party incumbency advantage in mayoral elections in Germany. Using a regression discontinuity design on a data set of about 25,000 elections, I estimate a causal incumbency effect of 38-40 percentage points in the probability of winning the next mayor...

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Tax Competition and the Choice of Tax Structure in a Majority Voting Model

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This note studies the choice of tax structure in a majority voting model with tax competition. Regions may tax mobile capital or immobile labor. Individuals differ with respect to their relative endowments of labor and capital. Even though a lump sum tax is available, the equilibrium capital tax...

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Incentive Effects of Fiscal Equalization: Has Russian Style Improved?

Freinkman, Lev; Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Thießen, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

further reforms in federalism arrangements would be desirable. …

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Fiscal Federalism in Western European and Selected Other Countries: Centralization or Decentralization? What Is Better for Economic Growth?

Thießen, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

brief review of the theoretical literature on the benefits and shortcomings of fiscal decentralization this paper presents … the one hand, and constructed indicators of fiscal decentralization, on the other hand. The analysis suggests for high … capital formation, on the one hand, and fiscal decentralization, on the other hand. By contrast, for countries with middle …

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