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Government decentralization as a commitment

Grâdšṭayn, Marq - 2014

. Building on insights provided by the “second generation” wave of research on fiscal federalism, this paper proposes a unified …

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Environmental tax reform in a federation with rent-induced migration

Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - 2015

We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...

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Heterogeneity, vetoes and exit clauses in federal systems

Huysmans, Martijn - 2018

The vast majority of federations lack exit clauses. Existing theoretical explanations of this stylized fact focus on issues of credible commitment, signaling, and the risk of strategic exploitation. However, such accounts are unable to explain the adoption by the European Union (EU) of Article...

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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland

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

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically …

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Elections and de facto expenditure decentralization in Canada

Jametti, Mario; Joanis, Marcelin - 2014

This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, based on the predictions of a new political economy model of partial decentralization. The analysis is based on an agency model, in which two levels of government are involved in the provision of a...

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Raising taxes through equalization

Smart, Michael (contributor) - 2007

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Regional resources and democratic secessionism

Gehring, Kai; Schneider, Stephan A. - 2018

Although regional resources have been shown to influence secessionist conflicts in developing countries, their effect in established democracies has largely been neglected. We integrate regional resource value and inter-regional transfers in a model on the optimal size of nations, and show that...

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Partisan determinants of federal highway grants

Goetzke, Frank; Hankins, William; Hoover, Gary A. - 2017

Using data on federal highway grants from the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration, this paper investigates several questions regarding the political economy of highway funding. We investigate the period 1994 - 2008 and examine whether political alignment and political...

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Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? - evidence from Germany

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2020

Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …

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Reassignment and the power to tax in a federal state : Canada, 1867-2024

Winer, Stanley L. - 2025 - Revised, February 4, 2025

Although reassignment of policy instruments among governments in many federations is a recurring event, there is no widely accepted, positive model of the phenomenon. This stands in contrast to the well established body of work on the normative theory of the efficient federal assignment. In this...

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