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Whose preferences matter for redistribution : cross-country evidence
Maréchal, Michel André; Cohn, Alain; Yusof, Jeffrey; … - 2023
Using cross-sectional data from 93 countries, we investigate the relationship between the desired level of redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus on redistribution arises from the inherent class...
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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 …
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Efficiency of decentralized road investment and pricing in a multi-jurisdictional city with spillovers
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2013
This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers, a main tenet of the … decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation context. In a monocentric city where road (bridge) capacity …
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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...
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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...
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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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Moral federalism : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004
Janeba, Eckhard - 2004
paper compares three regimes (centralization, decentralization and federalism) in an economy where individuals choose their … move from decentralization to federalism, called moral federalism, is welfare improving behind the veil of ignorance if and … only if centralization dominates decentralization, and (ii) for the group that favors a restrictive policy moral federalism …
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The cost of decentralization : linguistic polarization and the provision of education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016
In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...
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Employment in the public sector
Forni, Lorenzo; Giordano, Raffaela - 2003
This paper presents a model of wage-employment determination in private and public sectors, which allows us to analyze the effects of different institutional arrangements on labor market equilibria. In particular, it focuses on how different degrees of coordination in decision processes affect...
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