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Analysing the impact of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes : empirical evidence from Spain

Cantarero, D.; Pascual, Marta - In: Applied economics letters 15 (2008) 1/3, pp. 109-111

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Do fiscal decentralization and income inequality affect the size of the shadow economy? : a panel data analysis for OECD countries

Berger, Wolfram; Salotti, Simone; Sardà Pons, Jordi - In: Applied economics letters 25 (2018) 8, pp. 571-575

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State Fiscal Institutions and the U.S. Municipal Bond Market

Poterba, James M. - 1997

This paper presents new evidence on the effect of state fiscal institutions, particularly balanced-budget rules and restrictions on state debt issuance, on the yields on state general obligation bonds. We analyze information from the Chubb Relative Value Survey, which contains relative...

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Colonial Institutions, Commodity Booms, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889-1930

Musacchio, Aldo - 2014

We explain how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted a unequal expansion in public schooling. We document how the variation in state export tax revenues, product of commodity booms, explains increases in expenditures on education,...

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Empirical investigation of disintegrations and nationalism

Akdede, Sacit Hadi; Hwang, Jinyoung - In: Applied economics letters 15 (2008) 13/15, pp. 1065-1071

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Economic Integration and Political Disintegration

Alesina, Alberto - 1997

Trade liberalization and political separatism go hand in hand. In a world of trade restrictions, large countries enjoy economic benefits because political boundaries determine the size of the market. In a world of free trade and global markets even relatively small cultural, linguistic or ethnic...

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Commodity Trade and the Carry Trade : a Tale of Two Countries

Ready, Robert - 2013

Persistent differences in interest rates across countries account for much of the profitability of currency carry trade strategies. "Commodity currencies'' tend to have high interest rates while low interest rate currencies belong to exporters of finished goods. This pattern arises in a...

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Federalism's Values and the Value of Federalism

Inman, Robert P. - 2008

scholars and is there any evidence that would suggest all this attention is warranted? Proponents see federalism as a means to …, while policy decentralization is the key to federalism's strong rights and economic performance and can be achieved within a … provides federalism's valued outcomes. Third, federalism needs democracy; there is no evidence that adding policy …

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Was Pandemic Fiscal Relief Effective Fiscal Stimulus? Evidence from Aid to State and Local Governments

Clemens, Jeffrey; Hoxie, Philip G.; Veuger, Stan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use an instrumental-variables estimator reliant on variation in congressional representation to analyze the effects of federal aid to state and local governments across all four major pieces of COVID-19 response legislation. Through September 2021, we estimate that the federal government...

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Kuznets inverted-U hypothesis revisited : a time-series approach using US data

Bahmani-Oskooee, Mohsen; Gelan, A. - In: Applied economics letters 15 (2008) 7/9, pp. 677-681

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