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The Economic Approach to Political Borders
Spolaore, Enrico - 2022
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290075
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Fiscal Federalism and Income Inequality: An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically … setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957223
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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273794
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The political economy of regional integration projects at borders where rich and poor meet: the role of cross-border shopping and community sorting
Dascher, Kristof; Haupt, Alexander - 2008
At borders where rich and poor countries meet, services prices differ hugely. In principle, price differentials could be exploited to mutual benefit, offering improved job opportunities to the poor as well as better shopping opportunities to the rich. However, cross-border shopping is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264347
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How do local governments decide on public policy in fiscal federalism?: tax vs. expenditure optimization
Köthenbürger, Marko - 2008
governments and, thereby, enable a more precise characterization of local government behaviour in fiscal federalism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264427
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Partial Fiscal Decentralization
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2021
The fiscal decentralization impulse now sweeping the world often leads to partial decentralization, where subnational … arrangement, the literature contains no economic analysis of a partial decentralization regime in a Tiebout-style model. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316771
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Democracy with Group Identity
Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role of group decisiveness into voting incentives and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531757
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The sustainability of empire in global perspective: The role of international trade patterns
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012
European empires had two key economic aspects: the extraction of colonial wealth by colonizers, and the relevance of trade for the colonial economies. I build a simple model of decolonization that puts these two elements at centre stage. By controlling policy in the colony, the mother country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283599
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The Economic Approach to Political Borders
Spolaore, Enrico - 2023
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264163
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Fiscal Federalism, Taxation and Grants
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2016
traditional, expenditure-related motives for centralization considered in the fiscal federalism literature is present. If central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555504