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How Did Federal Aid to States and Localities Affect Testing and Vaccine Delivery?
Clemens, Jeffrey; Hoxie, Philip G.; Kearns, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We estimate whether federal aid for state and local governments played a role in advancing population testing for COVID-19 and the administration of vaccines. To overcome biases that can result from the endogeneity of federal aid allocations, we use an instrumental-variables estimator reliant on...
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From Lapdogs to Watchdogs : Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance
Vannutelli, Silvia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A classic problem in public finance is the over-expenditure of local governments in expectation of a bailout from higher-level administrations. While monitoring could mitigate agency problems, it can itself be rendered ineffective if auditors are corruptible. I evaluate whether limiting...
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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 …
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Logrolling in Congress
Battaglini, Marco; Sciabolazza, Valerio Leone; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study vote trading among U.S. Congress members. By tracking roll-call votes within bills across five legislatures and politicians' personal connections made during the school years, we document a propensity of connected legislators to vote together that depends on how salient the bill is to...
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Organizing a Kingdom
Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We develop a framework that examines the organizational challenges faced by central rulers governing large territories, where administrative power needs to be delegated to local elites. We describe how economic change can motivate rulers to empower different elites and emphasize the interaction...
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Subsidiarity and the European Union
Inman, Robert P. - 1998
essay reviews three alternative models of subsidiarity -- decentralized federalism, centralized federalism, and democratic … of local interests in, and the decision-making rules for, the Union. Subsidiarity is to be the guiding principle. This … federalism -- and argues the current European Economic Community has evolved from decentralized to centralized to a fully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472252
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Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies
Chang, Howard - 2007
between the federal and state governments in such a scheme of partial decentralization. Our model suggests that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465415
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A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization
Hatfield, John William - 2008
partial decentralization. A capital poor median voter wants to use capital taxes to provide public goods. This results in …. Decentralization provides such a commitment: local governments avoid using capital taxes due to the pressure of tax competition. We … therefore obtain that the median voter favors a partial degree of decentralization. The equilibrium degree of decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986893
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Experimentation in Federal Systems
Callander, Steven - 2013
We present a model where heterogeneous districts choose both whether to experiment and the policies to experiment with. Since districts learn from each other, the first-best requires that policy experiments converge so that innovations are useful also for neighbors. However, the equilibrium...
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