Mobility may undermine local income redistribution in federal systems,because rich taxpayers can evade high taxes by … moving to low tax jurisdictions. By analyzing a model of local income redistribution with endogenous voting, income … heterogeneity and an exogenously given degree of mobility we focus explicitly on the link between redistribution and mobility. Our …

-off plurality rule. Per capita total taxes, charges and current expenditure in large municipalities are lower than in small ones if …

taxes on voting, we account for national political shocks, ideological preferences of the citizenship and government traits …, coalition government, and first term government) to mediate the effects of taxes on voting. The vote equation was estimated …

with more corrupt activities. We develop a simple model in which the use of grants rather than locally raised taxes …

redistribution within their group. …

system, which caused an increasingly negative redistribution of income. Pre-Tax incomes grew unequal during the period and …

inter-regional redistribution achieved through intergovernmental transfers in each country. Second, it explores sources of …

-regional redistribution within federations. A simple legislative bargaining model with endogenous taxation suggests that over …

The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between ethnic heterogeneity and redistribution, by using the … redistribution. …