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Decentralization, vertical fiscal imbalance, and political selection
Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - 2013
decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the '90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199692
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Fiscal autonomy and fiscal sustainability : subnational taxation and public indebtedness in contemporary Spain
Larin, Benjamin; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2014
This study assesses fiscal sustainability in contemporary Spain at the regional level. Spain consists of 17 autonomous regions, two fiscal regimes differing in taxing autonomy, and two path-dependent types of communities with more and less legislatively recognized autonomy. Three of the 17...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337588
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434438
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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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Vertical effects of fiscal rules : the Swiss experience
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P. - 2014
) provides little evidence that budget constraints at the cantonal level affect municipal finances and fiscal decentralization …
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Fiscal autonomy and self-setermination
Loumeau, Gabriel; Stettler, Christian - 2021
This paper studies the equilibrium effects of local fiscal autonomy accounting for benefits from self-determination. It proposes a quantifiable structural equilibrium framework in which imperfectly mobile heterogeneous households sort themselves across jurisdictions under endogenous public good...
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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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Beyond the centre : tracing decentralization’s influence on time-varying fiscal sustainability
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Jalles, João Tovar; … - 2024
This paper explores the nuanced relationship between fiscal decentralization and fiscal sustainability. Employing panel … data analyses, it scrutinizes how decentralization influences fiscal discipline across different governmental levels …. Results for 185 countries show that while tax decentralization often hampers the degree of fiscal responsiveness, potentially …
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Fiscal federalism in the 21st century
Agrawal, David R.; Brueckner, Jan K.; Brülhart, Marius - 2024
equity aspects fiscal decentralization, fiscal competition, fiscal externalities, and intergovernmental grants. The survey …
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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009
component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization. -- federalism … ; decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; economic effects of constitutions ; constitutional economics …
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