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Strategic Institutional Choice: Voters, States, and Congressional Term Limits

Lopez, Edward J.; Jewell, R. Todd - EconWPA - 2005

under a Supreme Court ruling. The results hold implications for institutional federalism and the potential passage of …

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The Institutions of Federalism: Toward an Analytical Framework

Wildasin, David E. - EconWPA - 2004

Mature federations have relatively transparent delineations of authority among levels of government; subnational governments enjoy considerable autonomy in their expenditure, revenue, and debt policies. In other countries, problems of soft budget constraints, bailouts, and fiscal and financial...

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Knowledge, Coordination, and Fiscal Federalism: An Organizational Perspective

GARZARELLI, Giampaolo; LIMAM, Yasmina Reem - EconWPA - 2003

This essay brings fiscal federalism theory into contact with the knowledge perspective to economic organization. The … question addressed is: can a central government be justified in the context of fiscal federalism on grounds of economic …

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The Tragedy of the Commons or the Curse of Federalism

Bouton, Laurent; Gassner, Marjorie; Verardi, Vincenzo - EconWPA - 2005

It has been suggested that …scal federalism is a good way to induce decentralized entities to behave parsimoniously …

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Revolutionary Ideas for Radio Regulation

Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003

Radio technology is the key to rapid broadband development that reaches even geographically remote areas of the world. To get needed, radical changes in radio regulation, much more attention should be directed toward central issues of constitutional law. Historical experience and centuries of...

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Regional Inequality in India: A Fresh Look

Singh, Nirvikar; Bhandari, Laveesh; Chen, Aoyu; Khare, Aarti - EconWPA - 2004

There are concerns that regional inequality in India has increased after the economic reforms of 1991. This concern is supported by various statistical analyses. In this paper, we show that the conclusions are sensitive to what measures of attainment are used. In particular, human development...

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Should Public Capital Be Subsidized or Provided?

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Xie, Danyang; Zou, Heng-Fu - EconWPA - 2002

In an endogenous-growth model, we consider alternative ways of providing public capital using distortionary taxes. We show that if the government provides the good, the resulting growth rate and welfare may or may not be higher than under laissez-faire. By contrast, if the government subsidizes...

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Nursing home subsidies

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 13 July 1998 the Treasurer referred the current and alternative funding methodologies for nursing home subsidy rates …, announced in the August 1996 Budget, included a process of ‘coalescence’, under which the different nursing home subsidy rates … Commission into differential subsidy rates. …

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SUBSIDY AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN A MOBILE CAPITAL MODEL

Bandopadhyay, Titas Kumar - EconWPA - 2005

efficiency- wage relation in the low wage sector. The general equilibrium effects of subsidy policies on urban unemployment and … domestic factor income are examined.The main findings in this paper shows that urban subsidy policy softens the problem of … urban unemployment ,while the rural subsidy policy aggravates this, if informal sector is linked to the international market …

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International pharmaceutical price differences

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

The study compares manufacturer prices in Australia and seven other countries for 150 pharmaceuticals listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), as at 30 June 2000. The comprehensive study found that prices in the USA are between 80 to 160 per cent higher than in Australia, and prices...

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