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Ex-Post Redistribution in a Federation : Implications for Corrective Policy
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2006
. The required grant rule is generically disproportionate to the equilibrium externality (even with lump-sum taxation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779700
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Environmental Tax Reform in a Federation with Rent-Induced Migration
Garon, Jean-Denis - 2015
We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024493
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Environmental Tax Reform in a Federation with Rent-Induced Migration
Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - CESifo - 2015
We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210783
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Decentralization and Foreign Aid Effectiveness : Do Aid Modality and Federal Design Matter in Poverty Alleviation?
Lessmann, Christian - 2014
This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069925
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Trade Liberalization and Environmental Taxation in Federal Systems
Fredriksson, Per G. - 2014
The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055375
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Partial Fiscal Decentralization and Public-Sector Heterogeneity : Theory and Evidence from Norway
Borge, Lars-Erik - 2012
This paper provides an empirical test of a principal tenet of fiscal federalism: that spending discretion, when granted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099563
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How Do Local Governments Decide on Public Policy in Fiscal Federalism? Tax vs. Expenditure Optimization
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2008
governments and, thereby, enable a more precise characterization of local government behaviour in fiscal federalism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770444
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Intergovernmental Grants as Signals and the Alignment Effect : Theory and Evidence
Bracco, Emanuele - 2015
This paper provides a simple political agency model to explain the effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on intergovernmental grants and election outcomes. Key features of the model are: (i) rational voters interpret public good provision as a signal of incumbent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026684
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Voluntary Matching Grants Can Forestall Social Dumping
Dreze, Jacques H.; Figuieres, Charles; Hindriks, Jean - 2021
European economic integration leads to increasing factor mobility, thereby threatening the stability of social transfer … allocation of factors and the optimal level of redistribution in the presence of factor mobility. We use a fiscal competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317279
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Efficient Revenue Sharing and Upper Level Governments : Theory and Application to Germany
Buettner, Thiess; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Schwager, Robert - 2021
Recent literature has emphasized that redistributive grant systems may tend to internalize fiscal externalities arising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317654