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The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks
Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021
We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany’s fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...
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Looking for appropriate forms of intergovernmental transfers for municipalities in transition economies
Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - 2001
Intergovernmental transfers can be either conditional or unconditional with regard to the autonomy of local governments … provides primarily unconditional transfers for local governments. Furthermore, in the case of adopting the principle of … transfers appears to gain significance in providing local utilities, this study shows the recent Saxon experience with the …
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Significance and determination of fees for municipal finance
Friedrich, Peter (contributor);  … - 2004
The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique features of the intergovernmental fiscal system. In general municipal expenditures are rapidly growing in European countries. On the other hand local tax increases are not easily...
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Tax degression and the political budget cycle in French municipalities
Binet, Marie-Estelle; Pentecôte, Jean-Sébastien - In: Applied economics letters 11 (2004) 14, pp. 905-908
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Do fiscal transfers alleviate business tax competition? : evidence from Germany
Egger, Peter (contributor);  … - 2007
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Limits on government spending : evidence of manipulation from Brazilian municipalities
Schettini, Bernardo Patta; Terra, Rafael - In: Applied economics letters 27 (2020) 14, pp. 1200-1205
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Local fiscal effects of immigration in Germany
Maxand, Simone; Sallam, Hend - 2024
We investigate the impact of immigration on public budgets using administrative data from German districts (Kreise). While previous literature suggests that the fiscal benefits of migration depend on government spending responses to immigration, the local-level effects in Germany remain...
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Development of local public finance in Europe
Friedrich, Peter; Gwiazda, Joanna; Nam, Chang-woon - 2003
This paper investigates the development of local public finance in Germany, Switzerland, Poland and the United Kingdom. In this context important characteristics of municipal expenditures and revenues are examined in these countries. Differences in government structure (i.e. unitary or federal)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404312
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Fiscal multipliers in downturns and the effects of Euro Area consolidation
Gechert, Sebastian; Hughes Hallett, Andrew; Rannenberg, … - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 16/18, pp. 1138-1140
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Do local elections affect the spending of intergovernmental transfers? : evidence from Germany’s stimulus package of 2009
Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P. - 2024
In this paper, we study whether local spending of intergovernmental grants is influenced by mayoral elections in the grant receiving municipality. We exploit the implementation of the German federal government’s second economic stimulus package of 2009 (K2) in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg...
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