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Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin

Caldeira, Emilie - 2012

We study the effect of decentralization on the access to some poverty-related public services in Benin. Compiling panel … suggests that decentralization has a positive overall effect on access to basic services. However, this effect appears to be … services. Decentralization in Benin contributes positively to the reduction of poverty by improving the average access to …

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Fiscal Unions

Werning, Ivan - 2012

We study cross-country risk sharing as a second-best problem for members of a currency union using an open economy model with nominal rigidities and provide two key results. First, we show that if financial markets are incomplete, the value of gaining access to any given level of aggregate risk...

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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis

Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...

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Wayfair : A Step Towards the Destination, But Sales Tax Competition Remains

Bruce, Donald J.; Fox, William F.; Shute, Alannah M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the landmark 2018 Wayfair case greatly improved state governments' ability to enforce collection of sales taxes on a destination basis. This has reduced state tax competition with an essentially-untaxed internet, but has brought traditional cross-border...

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Correlation in State and Local Tax Changes

Baker, Scott; Janas, Pawel; Küng, Lorenz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Empirical research in public economics, including our own, often uses variation in state and local taxes as an empirical laboratory to estimate causal relationships. A key concern is that other taxes might change at the same time. To assess this concern, we develop a dataset of state (1977-2022)...

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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

Our purpose is three-fold. First, we summarize some of the core insights from both classic and more recent papers in the literature on the role of intergovernmental grants in systems of fiscal federalism. Second, we provide an updated look at some of the key institutions through which...

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State-Dependent Local Projections : Understanding Impulse Response Heterogeneity

Cloyne, James; Jordà, Òscar; Taylor, Alan M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

An impulse response is the dynamic average effect of an intervention across horizons. We use the well-known Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to explore a response's heterogeneity over time and over states of the economy. This can be implemented with a simple extension to the usual local...

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Fiscal Influences on Inflation in OECD Countries, 2020-2022

Barro, Robert J.; Bianchi, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL) has been active for 30 years, and the interest in this theory grew with the recent global surges in inflation and government spending. This study applies the FTPL to 37 OECD countries for 2020-2022. The theory's centerpiece is the government's...

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Informal Fiscal Systems in Developing Countries

Aman-Rana, Shan; Minaudier, Clement; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Governments in developing countries have low fiscal capacity yet face pressures to provide public goods and services, leading them to rely on various unusual fiscal arrangements. We document one such - hitherto unexplored - arrangement: informal fiscal systems that rely on local bureaucrats to...

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