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facto JI focusing on countries actually experience. Whether JI affects economic growth is tested for a cross section of 57 … countries. While de iure JI does not have an impact on real GDP growth per capita growth, de facto JI positively influences it. …
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the aim of achieving regional convergence, they should have a positive effect on economic growth. However, it is equally … possible that transfers perpetuate under-development by diminishing regional incentives to implement growth-enhancing policies …. In this paper, we study empirically the effect of intergovernmental transfers on economic growth using the German …
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JI has a robust and highly significant impact on economic growth. Individual components of both de jure and de facto JI … on economic growth are estimated for their impact on economic growth. Additionally, the effects of other institutional …
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strongly con-firms previous results that de jure JI is not systematically related to economic growth, but de facto JI is highly … significantly and robustly correlated with growth. In addition, we show that the effect of de facto JI depends on the institutional …
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The link between federalism and economic performance is still ambiguous. Aiming at clarification, we improve on a widespread shortcoming by measuring federalism not just by one variable but by various institutions that constitute it. To this end, Switzerland provides for a laboratory as its 26...
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and economic growth, this paper revisits the question using a Bayesian Model Averaging approach. The analysis suggests …, there is no robust link, neither positive, nor negative, between output growth and fiscal federalism (measured as sub …
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decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision … of public services. However, decentralization may also increase growth by raising the ability of the political system to … empirical literature on decentralization and economic growth. Based on our survey, we identify open questions and discuss …
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In this paper, we extend Henning Bohn's (2008) fiscal sustainability test by allowing for slope heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence (CD). In particular, our econometric approach is the first that allows fiscal reaction functions (FRF) to capture unobserved heterogeneous effects from...
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This paper explores the role of political stability on fiscal policy choices in a time-series analysis over 158 years on the Swiss federal level. We argue that the fiscal-commons problem of public finances is affected by the time-horizon of a finance minister. Arguably, the incentives for an...
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