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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 … possible that transfers perpetuate under-development by diminishing regional incentives to implement growth-enhancing policies …. In this paper, we study empirically the effect of intergovernmental transfers on economic growth using the German …

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How do subnational governments react to shocks to different revenue sources? : evidence from hydrocarbon-producing provinces in Argentina

Besfamille, Martin; Jorrat, Diego; Manzano, Osmel; … - 2021

intergovernmental transfers and hydrocarbon royalties had on provincial public consumption and debt. From a one-peso increase in … intergovernmental transfers, all provinces spent 76 centavos on public consumption and decreased their debt by 22 centavos. However …

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How do subnational governments react to shocks to revenue sources? : evidence from Argentina

Besfamille, Martin; Jorrat, Diego; Manzano, Osmel; … - 2019

Using the exogenous variability in intergovernmental transfers and hydrocarbon royalties, based on the fiscal regime … provincial public consumption and debt. When receiving a one-peso increase in intergovernmental transfers, provinces spent 32 … volatility of hydrocarbon royalties (relative to intergovernmental transfers) and the exhaustible nature of these revenues. …

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Lifestyle taxes in the presence of profit shifting

Levaggi, Rosella; Marchiori, Carmen; Panteghini, Paolo - 2020

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) cause about 71% of all deaths globally and a considerable increase in health care costs. To tackle this problem, several Governments have designed "sin taxes", i.e, extra payments related to the quantity of unhealthy contents of specific goods. However, unhealthy...

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The effects of fiscal institutions on public finance : a survey of the empirical evidence

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2001

This paper surveys the empirical research on fiscal institutions of the last three decades. The main results are: (i) Constitutional or statutory fiscal limitations have in most cases proved to be effective in cutting down public expenditure, revenue, and debt. (ii) Budgetary proce-dures matter...

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Fiscal performance of minority governments : new empirical evidence for OECD countries

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

I use new data on central and general governments for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960-2015 (unbalanced panel) to examine fiscal performance under minority governments. The results do not suggest that minority governments had higher fiscal deficits and public expenditure than majority...

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Tax cuts starve the beast! : evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019

The 'starving the beast' hypothesis claims that tax cuts lead to lower public spending, rather than higher debt levels and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in order to explore how fiscal policy reacts to exogenous...

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The impact of government size on corruption : a meta-regression analysis

Bonanno, Graziella; Errico, Lucia; Fiorino, Nadia; … - 2024

We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 empirical estimates retrieved from 44 primary papers published from 1998 to 2022. We find considerable heterogeneity in the results, mainly depending on whether the paper is published...

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Minimum standards, fixed costs and taxing autonomy of subnational governments

Seitz, Helmut (contributor) - 2008

The paper examines the question how fiscally strong and fiscally weak states respond to taxing autonomy at the state level, a subject that is currently under debate in Germany where states do have virtually no power to tax. We use a simple theoretical model that incorporates state surtaxes on...

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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power

Dahlberg, Matz (contributor); Lundqvist, Heléne (contributor) - 2008

In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...

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