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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408426
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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 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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How do local governments decide on public policy in fiscal federalism? : tax vs. expenditure optimization
Köthenbürger, Marko (contributor) - 2008
Previous literature widely assumes that taxes are optimized in local public finance while expenditures adjust residually. This paper endogenizes the choice of the optimization variable. In particular, it analyzes how federal policy toward local governments influences the way local governments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749644
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Migration, local fiscal variables and local economic conditions
Carlsen, Fredrik - 2001
The paper examines the effects of local fiscal variables and local economic conditions on exit decisions of Norwegian households. The study takes advantage of a unique survey data set in which respondents evaluate a range of local amenities and report whether they intend to relocate. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399727