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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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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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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477364
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Education, Welfare, and the "New" Federalism : State Budgeting in a Federalist Public Economy
Craig, Steven G. - 1985
President Reagan's proposal for a "New Federalism" raises a fundamental challenge to our current structure of Federal …-state-local fiscal relations.This research examInes the lIkely consequences of the New Federalism for fiscal allocations by state … and more on tax relief and the numerous other state activities. Second, the New Federalism, as it relaxes the spending …
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