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The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks
Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021
We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany’s fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514567
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Municipal finance in Poland, the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic and Hungary : institutional framework and recent development
Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - 2001
-ordinating intergovernmental fiscal transfers between the central and local governments. For instance, some criticise that many small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398112
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Looking for appropriate forms of intergovernmental transfers for municipalities in transition economies
Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - 2001
Intergovernmental transfers can be either conditional or unconditional with regard to the autonomy of local governments … provides primarily unconditional transfers for local governments. Furthermore, in the case of adopting the principle of … transfers appears to gain significance in providing local utilities, this study shows the recent Saxon experience with the …
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Using a discontinuous grant to identify the effect of grants on local taxes and spending
Dahlberg, Matz (contributor); Mörk, Eva (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003457153
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Taxes in cities
Marius, Brülhart; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2014
Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we review the literature on a number of salient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010396544
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Lost in America : evidence on local sales taxes from national panel data
Agrawal, David - 2014 - This Version: June 2014
This paper studies comprehensive national panel data of local option sales taxes at the monthly frequency. I calculate state-by-month population weighted averages of local sales tax rates. I document ten stylized facts concerning the time series patterns and spatial dynamics of local sales...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393644
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Tax responses in local public finance : the flypaper effect at work
Köthenbürger, Marko; Loumeau, Gabriel - 2023
regression kink design, we find robust causal evidence that transfers have a positive local average treatment effect on municipal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250394
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The political resource curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - In: The American economic review 103 (2013) 5, pp. 1759-1796
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The dynamics of municipal fiscal adjustment
Büttner, Thiess; Wildasin, David E. - 2002
The dynamic fiscal policy adjustment of local jurisdictions is investigated empirically using a panel of more than 1000 U.S. municipalities over a quarter of a century. Distinguishing own revenues, grants, expenditures, and debt service, the analysis is carried out using a vector error...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408935
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Endogenous federal grants and crowd-out of state government spending : theory and evidence from the federal highway aid program
Knight, Brian G. - In: The American economic review 92 (2002) 1, pp. 71-92
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