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The fiscal contract up close : experimental evidence from Mexico City
Brockmeyer, Anne; Garfias, Francisco; Suárez Serrato, … - 2024
Can the provision of public goods strengthen the fiscal capacity of governments in developing countries and move them toward an equilibrium of widespread tax compliance? We present evidence of the impact of local public infrastructure on tax compliance, leveraging a large public investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046278
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Application of regionally varying additionality degrees in the practice of EU cohesion policy
Nam, Chang-woon; Wamser, Georg - 2010
The additionality principle says that the funds of the European Union should not replace, but be an addition to national regional policy funds. The benchmark for the co-funding is that the EU bears 50% of total costs associated with regional projects eligible for EU support. In some regions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940115
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Homevoters vs. leasevoters : a spatial analysis of airport effects
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2013 - Version: March 2013
We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764375
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Après nous le déluge? : direct democracy and intergenerational conflicts in ageing societies
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Steenbeck, Malte - 2016 - Version: January 2016
To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the...
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694121
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One size fits all? : decentralization, corruption, and the monitoring of bureaucrats
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009
The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …
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Wage effects of employer : mediated transfers
Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Dario - 2021
We explore whether the way in which tax credits are disbursed affects the gross wage of workers. We exploit an unusual reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a staggered fashion, from 2003 to 2010. Using...
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Public employment services under decentralization : evidence from a natural experiment
Mergele, Lukas; Kloß, Michael - 2019
This paper studies whether the decentralization of public employment services (PES) increases job placements among the …-in-differences design, we exploit unique within-country variation in decentralization provided by the partial devolution of German job … centers in 2012. We find that decentralization reduces job placements by approximately 10%. Decentralized providers expand the …
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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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