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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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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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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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Information transmission within federal fiscal architectures : theory and evidence

Gehring, Kai; Kotsogiannēs, Chrēstos; Marchesi, Silvia - 2013

explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal …-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes - "decentralization" and "centralization" - when "knowledge … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision-making controls the degree of decentralization …

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Decentralized leadership

Silva, Emilson C. D. - 2016

This paper studies the efficiency of decentralized leadership in federations where selfish regional governments provide regional and federal public goods and the benevolent central government implements interregional earmarked and income transfers. Without residential mobility, unlimited...

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Decentralization and international tax competition

Wilson, John F.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2003

country s decentralization level serves as a strategic tool through its influence on the mix of horizontal and vertical …

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