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Homevoters vs. leasevoters: a spatial analysis of airport effects

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013

We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...

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Decentralization of government and contracting with the private sector

Cortés, Darwin - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

governments will contract more with the private sector. Then, I use the 2001 decentralization reform in Colombia to test these …Using a simple model of incomplete contracts to characterize the relationship between decentralization and contracting … of the fact that the level of decentralization is decided using an exogenous population threshold to identify causal …

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On the determinants of local tax rates: new evidence from Spain

Delgado, Francisco J.; Lago-Peñas, Santiago; Mayor, Matías - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

This paper studies the determinants of local tax rates. For the two main local taxes in Spain - the property tax and the motor vehicle tax - we test the existence of tax mimicking, yardstick competition and political trends in a sample of 2,713 municipalities. Using different spatial models, the...

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Green polities: urban environmental performance and government popularity

Bianchini, Laura; Revelli, Federico - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

accountability-enhancing property of decentralization. Based on a unique score of urban environmental performance and the results of …

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Citizens' control and the efficiency of local public services

Roca, Núria Bosch; Queralt, Marta Espasa; Corral, … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

It is generally accepted that fiscal decentralization increases citizens’ control over politicians, fostering …

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A political economy model of the vertical fiscal gap and vertical fiscal imbalances in a federation

Dahlby, Bev; Rodden, Jonathan - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013

We develop a political economy model of intergovernmental transfers. Vertical fiscal balance occurs in a federation when the ratio of the marginal benefit of the public services provided by the federal and provincial governments is equal to their relative marginal costs of production. With...

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Overlapping political budget cycles in the legislative and the executive

Foremny, Dirk; Freier, Ronny; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2015

We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it...

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Business taxes and the electoral cycle

Foremny, Dirk; Riedel, Nadine - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether politicians manipulate the timing of tax rate changes in a strategic way to maximize reelection prospects. To do so, we exploit the German local business tax as a testing ground which is set autonomously by German municipalities. As election dates...

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Business taxation and economic performance in hierarchical government structures

Revelli, Federico - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012

This paper models theoretically and investigates empirically the consequences on local economic performance of state mandates on financially distressed authorities. In particular, I analyze the switch from systematic state bailout of regional health care deficits to selectively mandated hikes in...

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Tax competition among local governments: evidence from a property tax reform in Finland

Lyytikäinen, Teemu - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

This paper uses a Finnish policy intervention to study tax competition among local governments. Changes in the statutory lower limits to the property tax rates are used as a source of exogenous variation to estimate the responses of municipalities to tax rates in their neighbouring...

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