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Devolution as a means to adequate social safety nets?
Van Mechelen, Natascha; De Maesschalck, Veerle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Decentralisation is invariably among the recommendations that international organisations such as the World Bank make for an enhancement of social provisions, and particularly a better targeting of social assistance regimes, in Eastern and Central Europe. However, theoretical literature as wel...
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Citizen Preferences and the Architecture of Government
Bourgeon, Jean-Marc; Breuillé, Marie-Laure - 2018
We consider a country whose government provides a bundle of goods and services through a multi-tier administrative organization. We compare the optimal architectures of public governance (i.e. the division of the state into several tiers, the distribution of services among them, their number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931995
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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009
component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization. …
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Fiscal Federalism in the 21st Century
Agrawal, David R.; Brueckner, Jan K.; Brülhart, Marius - 2024
equity aspects fiscal decentralization, fiscal competition, fiscal externalities, and intergovernmental grants. The survey …
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Public Provision and Local Income Tax Competition
Kuhlmey, Florian; Hintermann, Beat - 2016
We extend the literature on local income tax competition by allowing for inter-jurisdictional spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of a publicly provided good. Comparing decentralized second-best results of a theoretical model with an efficient benchmark, we identify three...
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Federalism and economic development in India: An assessment
Singh, Nirvikar; Srinivasan, T.N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic development outcomes, and of the country’s federal institutions, the analysis focuses on the major...
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Should Income Inequality be Praised? Multiple Public Goods Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016
We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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Defense R&D: Effects on Economic Growth and Social Welfare
Chu, Angus C.; Lai, Ching-Chong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In the US, defense R&D share of GDP has decreased significantly since 1960. To analyze the implications on economic growth and welfare, we develop an R&D-based growth model that features the commonly discussed crowding-out and spillover effects of defense R&D on civilian R&D. The model also...
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A Study on Indonesia Regions Disparity: Post Decentralization
Aritenang, Adiwan F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
lead to decentralization in 1999, which has entitled local governments (province and regency/municipality) to develop its … region autonomously. Surprisingly, it was concern that the decentralization will increase the disparities, rather than … Indonesian provinces disparities and poverty rate to overview the economic growth after decentralization. Overall, this research …
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