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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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Evaluating the Efficiency and Equity of Federal Fiscal Equalization

Albouy, David - 2010

In theory, federal transfers that make household location decisions efficient should ignore local cost differences, subsidize positive externalities, and offset differences in federal-tax payments and local taxes levied on non-residents, but not local tax revenues from residents. Transfers that...

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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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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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Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies

Chang, Howard - 2007

Under most federal environmental laws and some health and safety laws, states may apply for "primacy," that is, authority to implement and enforce federal law, through a process known as "authorization." Some observers fear that states use authorization to adopt more lax policies in a regulatory...

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Intergenerational Fiscal Constitutions : How to Protect Future Generations Using Land Taxes and Federalism

Conley, John P. - 2001

This paper studies how to design a fiscal constitution that, by capitalizing intergenerational spillovers into land values, is able to protect future generations from expropriation and to generate optimal investment in intergenerational public goods. In particular, we study how to accomplish...

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Medicaid and Fiscal Federalism During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Clemens, Jeffrey; Ippolito, Benedic N.; Veuger, Stan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We analyze the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on state and local government finances, with an emphasis on health spending needs and the role of the Medicaid program. We arrive at three conclusions. First, we find that nationwide, and over the entirety of the federal budget window, the enhanced...

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An Optimal Taxation Approach to Fiscal Federalism

Gordon, Roger H. - 1982

In a Federal system of government, each unit of government decides independently how much of each type of public good to provide, and what types of taxes, and which tax rates, to use in funding the public goods. In this paper we explore what types of problems can arise from this decentralized...

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