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What Does the European Union Do?
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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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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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 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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Fiscal Federalism and the Budget Impacts of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion
Gruber, Jonathan - 2020
Medicaid's federal-state matching system of financing is the nation's largest example of fiscal federalism. Using …
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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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