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What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile for new vehicles. We assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these...

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Migration and social insurance

Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina - 2011

A wide variety of social protection systems coexist within the EU. Some member states provide social insurance that is of Beveridgean inspiration (with universal and more or less flat benefits), while others offer a system that is mainly Bismarckian (with benefits related to past contributions)....

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External threat, group identity, and support for common policies - the effect of the Russian invasion in Ukraine on European Union identity

Gehring, Kai - 2020

A major theory from social psychology claims that external threats can strengthen group identities and cooperation. This paper exploits the Russian invasion in Ukraine 2014 as a sudden increase in the perceived military threat for eastern European Union member states, in particular for the...

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Depressing dependence? : transfers and economic growth in the German States, 1975-2005

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah - 2016

Most countries pay substantial intergovernmental transfers to poor regions. Since these transfers are often paid with the aim of achieving regional convergence, they should have a positive effect on economic growth. However, it is equally possible that transfers perpetuate under-development by...

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The rotten kid theorem and almost transferable utility

Gugl, Elisabeth; Leroux, Justin - 2015

We assume like Bergstrom (1989) and Dijkstra (2007) that each child's utility is treated as a normal good in the altruistic head's utility function, and show that if utility functions lead to Almost Transferable Utility children can manipulate the tradeoff between their own utility and the...

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Self-enforcing capital tax coordination

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2013

Capital tax competition is known to result in inefficiently low tax rates and an undersupply of public goods. The provision of public goods and with it the welfare of all countries can be enhanced via tax coordination. Based on the standard Zodrow-Mieszkowski-Wilson tax-competition model this...

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Cities in fiscal equalization

Büttner, Thiess (contributor); … - 2008

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Capital tax competition with heterogeneous firms and agglomeration effects : presented at TAPES Conference on Fiscal Federalism, May 2004

Burbidge, John B.; Cuff, Katherine; Leach, John - 2004

Our paper extends the capital tax competition literature by incorporating heterogeneous capital and agglomeration. Our … model nests the standard tax competition model as well as the special case in which there is agglomeration but no firm …/capital heterogeneity and the opposite case, firm heterogeneity with no agglomeration. We build on the existing tax competition literature …

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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...

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Local fiscal equalization in Estonia : is a reform necessary?

Friedrich, Peter; Nam, Chang-woon; Reiljan, Janno - 2009

Estonian municipalities should perform a broad range of functions, while their fiscal resources are often limited and large disparities in fiscal capacity prevail among them. Moreover, the power to regulate fiscal affairs is mostly in the hands of the central government. We discuss how a strict...

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