Similar Search Results

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436089

Revisiting the "decentralization theorem" : on the role of externalities

Köthenbürger, Marko (contributor) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003620168

Decentralization and international tax competition

Wilson, John F.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2003

country s decentralization level serves as a strategic tool through its influence on the mix of horizontal and vertical …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514157

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

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903798

A theory of user-fee competition

Fuest, Clemens; Kolmar, Martin - 2004

We develop a two-region model where the decentralized provision of spillover goods can be financed by means of taxes or user fees. In order to enforce the fees regions have to invest in exclusion. We show that a decentralized solution tends to be inefficient. There will be over-investment in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402495

Decentralization and foreign aid effectiveness : do aid modality and federal design matter in poverty alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2010

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that fiscal decentralization negatively impacts aid effectiveness, while measures of … political decentralization have no significant effect or even a positive one. This result is robust for grants and overall ODA …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966487

Information transmission and ownership consolidation in aid programs

Dreher, Axel; Marchesi, Silvia - 2013

example of a "delegation-scheme." Conversely, project aid represents a more "centralized" type of aid. According to the theory …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199746

Information transmission within federal fiscal architectures : theory and evidence

Gehring, Kai; Kotsogiannēs, Chrēstos; Marchesi, Silvia - 2013

explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal …-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes - "decentralization" and "centralization" - when "knowledge … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision-making controls the degree of decentralization …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010126407

Decentralized leadership

Silva, Emilson C. D. - 2016

This paper studies the efficiency of decentralized leadership in federations where selfish regional governments provide regional and federal public goods and the benevolent central government implements interregional earmarked and income transfers. Without residential mobility, unlimited...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524602

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last