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The political competition-economic performance puzzle : evidence from the OECD countries and the Italian regions

Padovano, Fabio (contributor); Ricciuti, Roberto (contributor) - 2008

over 1984-2000 and find support for our predictions. -- Political competition ; growth ; redistribution ; national and …

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Who do you blame in local finance? : an analysis of municipal financing in Italy

Bordignon, Massimo; Piazza, Santino - 2010

A 1999 reform allowed Italian Mayors to partially substitute a more accountable source of tax revenue (the property tax) with a less transparent one (a surcharge on the personal income tax). Theoretical analysis suggests this should give incompetent Mayors a less costly way to hide themselves,...

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Fiscal decentralization and economic growth in OECD countries : is there a relationship?

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P. - 2009

We study the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 23 OECD countries from 1975 to 2001 … causes lower growth rates, we find that this result is not robust to alternative specifications. We also fail to obtain … is unrelated to economic growth. -- fiscal federalism ; sub-national fiscal autonomy ; tax competition …

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How to tame two Leviathans? : revisiting the effect of direct democracy on local public expenditure

Galletta, Sergio; Jametti, Mario - 2012

We explore how the vertical structure of direct democracy in a federal context affects expenditure decisions of sub-central governments. In so doing we revisit previous research on the effect of direct democratic institution on public policies. Particularly, the effect of upper-level (state)...

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Size and development of tax evasion in 38 OECD countries : what do we (not) know?

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - 2012 - This version: November 7, 2012

For the first time we develop a time series of tax evasion (in % of official GDP) for 38 OECD countries over the period 1999 to 2010 based on MIMIC model estimations of the shadow economy. Considering indirect taxation and self-employment as the driving forces of tax evasion, we observe a...

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Sending the pork home : birth town bias in transfers to Italian municipalities

Carozzi, Felipe; Repetto, Luca - 2015

We ask whether the birthplaces of Italian members of Parliament are favoured in the allocation of central government transfers. Using a panel of municipalities for the years between 1994 and 2006, we find that municipal governments of legislators' birth towns receive larger transfers per capita....

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Public debt and the political economy of reforms

Boyer, Pierre C.; Esslinger, Christoph; Roberson, Brian - 2021

We develop a two-period model of redistributive politics in which two politicians compete in an election in each period. In the first period, the politicians propose both whether to experiment with an efficient reform with uncertain benefits and choose the amount of public debt. Politicians also...

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Political competitiveness and fiscal structure : a time series analysis : Canada, 1870 - 2015

Ferris, John Stephen; Winer, Stanley L. - 2018

We investigate the extent to which the intensity of political competition moderates the governance issues that arise in relation to Canada’s fiscal structure. By fiscal structure we mean three distinct but interrelated fiscal dimensions of the state: financial stability, long run size and...

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Whose preferences matter for redistribution : cross-country evidence

Maréchal, Michel André; Cohn, Alain; Yusof, Jeffrey; … - 2023

redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens. …

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Politicians' motivation, political culture, and electoral competition

Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert - 2004

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