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Local Fiscal Equalization in Estonia : Is a Reform Necessary?
Friedrich, Peter - 2009
Estonian municipalities should perform a broad range of functions, while their fiscal resources are often limited and large disparities in fiscal capacity prevail among them. Moreover, the power to regulate fiscal affairs is mostly in the hands of the central government. We discuss how a strict...
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Taxes in Cities
Brülhart, Marius - 2014
Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we review the literature on a number of salient...
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How Do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from State and Local Governments, 1890 to 2005
Funk, Patricia - 2010
Using a new data set on Swiss state and local governments from 1890 to today, we analyze how the adoption of proportional representation affects fiscal policy. We show that proportional systems shift spending toward broad goods (e.g. education and welfare benefits) but decrease spending on...
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Tax Interactions among Belgian Municipalities : Does Language Matter?
Gerard, Marcel; Jayet, Hubert; Paty, Sonia - 2021
This paper tests the existence of strategic interactions among municipalities using a panel of Belgian local tax rates from 1985 to 2004. A special emphasis is put on the role of the language spoken in the various municipalities. Our results first confirm previous findings for Belgium suggesting...
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Do Fiscal Transfers Alleviate Business Tax Competition? Evidence from Germany
Egger, Peter H.; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Smart, Michael - 2021
The paper empirically analyzes the incentive effects of equalizing transfers on business tax policy by exploiting a natural experiment in the state of Lower Saxony which changed its equalization formula as of 1999. We resort to within-state and across-state difference-in-difference estimates to...
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Using a Discontinuous Grant to Identify the Effect of Grants on Local Taxes and Spending
Dahlberg, Matz; Moerk, Eva; Rattsø, Jørn; Agren, Hanna - 2021
When investigating the effects of federal grants on the behavior of lower-level governments, it is hard to defend the handling of grants as an exogenous factor affecting local governments; federal governments often set grants based on characteristics and performance of local governments. In this...
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Who Do You Blame in Local Finance? An Analysis of Municipal Financing in Italy
Bordignon, Massimo - 2010
A 1999 reform allowed Italian Mayors to partially substitute a more accountable source of tax revenue (the property tax) with a less transparent one (a surcharge on the personal income tax). Theoretical analysis suggests this should give incompetent Mayors a less costly way to hide themselves,...
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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution
Dahlberg, Matz - 2011
to reduced support for redistribution among natives. This paper exploits a nationwide program placing refugees in … increased immigrant shares on preferences for redistribution. The results show that a larger immigrant population leads to less … support for redistribution in the form of preferred social benefit levels. This reduction in support is especially pronounced …
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Social Long Term Care Insurance and Redistribution
Cremer, Helmuth - 2011
We study the role of social long term care (LTC) insurance when income taxation and private insurance markets are imperfect. Policy instruments include public provision of LTC as well as a subsidy on private insurance. The subsidy scheme may be linear or nonlinear. For the linear part we...
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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare
Lansing, Kevin J. - 2012
This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...
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