Calsamiglia, Xavier; Garcia-Milà, Teresa; McGuire, … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010
We explore the implications for the optimal degree of fiscal decentralization when people’s preferences for goods and services, which classic treatments of fiscal federalism (Oates, 1972) place in the purview of local governments, exhibit specific egalitarianism (Tobin, 1970), or solidarity....