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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland

Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018

setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …

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Public provision and local income tax competition

Kuhlmey, Florian; Hintermann, Beat - 2016

We extend the literature on local income tax competition by allowing for inter-jurisdictional spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of a publicly provided good. Comparing decentralized second-best results of a theoretical model with an efficient benchmark, we identify three...

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Citizen preferences and the architecture of government

Bourgeon, Jean-Marc; Breuillé, Marie-Laure - 2018

We consider a country whose government provides a bundle of goods and services through a multi-tier administrative organization. We compare the optimal architectures of public governance (i.e. the division of the state into several tiers, the distribution of services among them, their number of...

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Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty in Poland During Transition

Paci, Pierella; Sasin, Martin J.; Verbeek, Jos - 2013

The authors attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a relatively...

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Decentralization and progressive taxation

Berset, Simon; Schelker, Mark - 2021

panel data and apply causal machine learning methods to identify the effects of decentralization on the statutory tax …

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Fiscal delegation in a monetary union with decentralized public spending

Basso, Henrique S.; Costain, James - 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...

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Should income inequality be praised? : multiple public goods provision, income distribution and social welfare

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...

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Revisiting the "decentralization theorem" : on the role of externalities

Köthenbürger, Marko (contributor) - 2007

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Decentralization and foreign aid effectiveness : do aid modality and federal design matter in poverty alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2010

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that fiscal decentralization negatively impacts aid effectiveness, while measures of … political decentralization have no significant effect or even a positive one. This result is robust for grants and overall ODA …

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Information transmission and ownership consolidation in aid programs

Dreher, Axel; Marchesi, Silvia - 2013

This paper explores the role of information transmission in explaining donors ́choice between project aid and budget support. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decision-making process and can thus be an example of a "delegation-scheme." Conversely, project...

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