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Revisiting the 'Decentralization Theorem' - On the Role of Externalities

Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2021

The Decentralization Theorem (Oates, 1972) is central to the discussion of fiscal federalism. We revisit the role of consumption spillovers in evaluating the merits of (de)centralization. Unlike the general prediction, a higher degree of spillovers may reduce the difference in utility of...

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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...

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Government Spending and Tax Revenue Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency : Do Natural Disasters Matter?

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023

We assess notably how do extreme events affect the public sector efficiency of decentralized governance. Hence, we empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government spending efficiency scores via data envelopment...

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Do Party Ties Increase Transfer Receipts in Cooperative Federalism? - Evidence from Germany

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Koehler, Ekkehard A. - 2021

Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers. We study how parliamentary representation of municipalities on the federal level influences the allocation of federal transfers to municipal governments under this type of...

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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output

Hsieh, Chih-Sheng - 2019

institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …

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Alphabetized Co-Authorship in Economics Reconsidered

Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2021

American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Using more than 120,000 multi-authored articles from the Web of Science economics … subject category, we demonstrate first that the alphabetization rate in economics has declined over the last decade. Second …, we find no statistically significant relationship between alphabetized co-authorship and citations in economics using six …

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Classifying Top Economists Using Archetypoid Analysis

Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021

Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach allows us to identify typical characteristics of extreme (archetypal) values in a multivariate data set. In contrast to its predecessor, the archetypal analysis, archetypoids...

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