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The Economic Effects of Federalism and Decentralization - A Cross-Country Assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2021
effects of federalism by drawing on a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a … principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining … that institutional details do, indeed, matter. Different aspects of federalism impact on the outcome variables in different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316441
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A Bias-Corrected Method of Moments Approach to Estimation of Dynamic Short-T Panels
Chudik, Alexander - 2017
approach can be applied to estimation of a variety of models such as spatial and dynamic panel data models. In this paper we … focus on the latter and consider both univariate and multivariate panel data models with short time dimension. Simple Bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943386
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Regional Health Care Decentralization in Unitary States : Equal Spending, Equal Satisfaction?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2016
Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986117
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Fiscal Transfers and Fiscal Sustainability
Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
transfers. Using panel data techniques we investigate whether the debt-to-GDP ratio had a positive influence on the primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055378
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Decentralization, Vertical Fiscal Imbalance, and Political Selection
Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - 2021
In a career-concern model of politics with endogenous candidacy and different types of politicians, following a decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of autonomous resources. As an effect, consumer welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315696
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Decentralization and Foreign Aid Effectiveness : Do Aid Modality and Federal Design Matter in Poverty Alleviation?
Lessmann, Christian - 2014
decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that fiscal decentralization negatively impacts aid effectiveness, while measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069925
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Raising Taxes through Equalization
Smart, Michael - 2007
A simple theory suggests that a common form of federal horizontal equalization grants should cause subnational governments to levy higher tax rates, distorting local tax bases and so increasing federal transfers. To test this, I examine Canadian provincial tax policies in the 1972-2002 period....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777492
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Fiscal Delegation in a Monetary Union with Decentralized Public Spending
Basso, Henrique S. - 2016
In a monetary union, the interaction between several governments and a single central bank is plagued by several sources of deficit bias, including common pool problems. Each government has strong preferences over local spending and taxation but suffers only part of the costs of union-wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996333
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Incentive Effects of Fiscal Rules on the Finance Minister's Behaviour : Evidence from Revenue Projections in Swiss Cantons
Chatagny, Florian - 2015
use a panel dataset of 26 Swiss cantons over the period 1980-2007 as well as a new dataset of 99 finance ministers at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026676
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Modeling Fiscal Sustainability in Dynamic Macro-Panels with Heterogeneous Effects : Evidence from German Federal States
Feld, Lars P. - 2018
reaction to increasing debt levels in the West German Laender panel …
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