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A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization
Hatfield, John William; Miquel, Gerard Padró i - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
partial decentralization. A capital poor median voter wants to use capital taxes to provide public goods. This results in …. Decentralization provides such a commitment: local governments avoid using capital taxes due to the pressure of tax competition. We … therefore obtain that the median voter favors a partial degree of decentralization. The equilibrium degree of decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829026
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Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition: Learning from South Africa
Inman, Robert P.; Rubinfeld, Daniel L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We present a model of a peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy using federal governance as a constitutional means to protect the economic interests of the once ruling elite. Under "democratic federalism" the constitution creates an annual policy game where the new majority and the elite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575696
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Federalism's Values and the Value of Federalism
Inman, Robert P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
, while policy decentralization is the key to federalism's strong rights and economic performance and can be achieved within a … protective barrier for policy decentralization. Federal institutions protect policy decentralization, and policy decentralization … decentralization or provinces to a dictatorship significantly improves a dictatorship's economic or rights performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714137
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Suburbanization, Demographic Change and the Consequences for School Finance
Figlio, David; Fletcher, Deborah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The existing literature on the relationship between the share of elderly in a community and the support for local public education has led to mixed results to date. One potential reason behind this is that the share of elderly in a community is endogenous, and it is very difficult to disentangle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622325
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The Political Resource Curse
Perotti, Roberto; Tabellini, Guido; Brollo, Fernanda; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622357
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States in Fiscal Distress
Inman, Robert P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The 2007-2010 recession has imposed significant fiscal hardships on state and local governments. The result has been state deficits and the need to increase state taxes, cut spending, and withdraw funds from state rainy day accounts. The primary cause of state budget "gaps" has been the rise in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008624586
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Evaluating the Efficiency and Equity of Federal Fiscal Equalization
Albouy, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627159
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Cross-border media and nationalism: Evidence from Serbian radio in Croatia
DellaVigna, Stefano; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
How do nationalistic media affect animosity between ethnic groups? We consider one of Europe's deadliest conflicts since WWII: the Serbo-Croatian conflict. We show that, after a decade of peace, cross-border nationalistic Serbian radio triggers ethnic hatred towards Serbs in Croatia. Mostly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004020
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Old and Young Politicians
Alesina, Alberto; Troiano, Ugo; Cassidy, Traviss - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We evaluate the effect of a politician’s age on political governance, reelection rates,and policies using data on Italian local governments. Our results suggest that younger politicians are more likely to behave strategically in response to election incentives: they increase spending and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189101
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Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa
Inman, Robert P.; Rubinfeld, Daniel L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy stands as one of the past century's most important political events. The transition has been successful to this point because the new constitution adopted a form of federal governance that has been able to provide protection for the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652749