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Alesina, Alberto - 2001

We construct a set of indicators to measure the policy-making role of the European Union (European Council, Parliament, Commission, Court of Justice, etc.), in a selected number of policy domains. Our goal is to examine the division of prerogatives between European institutions and national...

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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 …

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Fiscal Federalism and Legislative Malapportionment : Causal Evidence from Independent but Related Natural Experiments

Galiani, Sebastian - 2014

We exploit three natural experiments in Argentina in order to study the role of legislative malapportionment on the biased federal tax sharing scheme prevalent in the country. We do not find support to attribute it to legislative malapportionment during periods when democratic governments were...

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Off-Balance-Sheet Federal Liabilities

Hamilton, James D. - 2013

Much attention has been given to the recent growth of the U.S. federal debt. This paper examines the growth of federal liabilities that are not included in the officially reported numbers. These take the form of implicit or explicit government guarantees and commitments. The five major...

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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System

Brown, Charles - 1985

This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...

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Fiscal Federalism in Europe : Lessons From the United States Experience

Inman, Robert P. - 1991

The existing political and legal institutions of fiscal policy-making are under challenge. As the United States and the eastern European and Soviet states experiment with policy decentralization, the states of western Europe are looking to a more centralized policy structure via the E.E.C.. This...

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Fiscal Federalism and Optimum Currency Areas : Evidence for Europe From the United States

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 1991

The main goal of this paper is to estimate to what extent the federal government of the United States insures member states against regional income shocks. We find that a one dollar reduction in a region's per capita personal income triggers a decrease in federal taxes of about 34 cents and an...

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The Eurocrisis : Muddling Through, or On the Way to a More Perfect Euro Union?

Aizenman, Joshua - 2014

This paper looks at the short history of the Eurozone through the lens of an evolutionary approach to forming new … responsibility for the euro's future. Germany's resilience and dominant size within the EU may explain its "muddling …-through" approach towards the Eurozone crisis. We review several manifestations of this muddling through process. Greater mobility of …

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What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists

Spolaore, Enrico - 2013

Europe's monetary union is part of a broader process of integration that started in the aftermath of World War II. In this "political guide for economists" we look at the creation of the euro within the bigger picture of European integration. How and why were European institutions established?...

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Coordination in the European Union

Feldstein, Martin - 2013

This paper examines the sources of current conflict within the EU and the EMU. The topics discussed include the recent …

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