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Tax decentralization notwithstanding regional disparities

Bellofatto, Antonio Andrés; Besfamille, Martin - 2019

In assessing the desirability for tax decentralization reforms, a dilemma between efficiency and redistribution emerges. By limiting the ability of the central government to redistribute resources towards regions in financial needs, decentralization curbs incentives for excessive subnational...

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Revealed political favoritism : evidence from the allocation of state lottery grants in Israel

Dahan, Momi; Yakir, Itamar - 2019

This paper offers a complementary empirical approach that might be better suited to identify the extent of political favoritism in a multi-decision-maker institution than the standard identification strategy. The typical diff-in-diff identification strategy to estimate political favoritism,...

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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland

Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically contradicting arguments ask for empirical evidence to obtain a better knowledge of this relationship. We rely on the institutional setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically....

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Environmental tax reform in a federation with rent-induced migration

Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - 2015

We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...

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Partial fiscal decentralization and sub-national government fiscal discipline : empirical evidence from OECD countries

Asatryan, Zareh; Feld, Lars P.; Geys, Benny - 2015

Recent theoretical research suggests that financing sub-national governments’ expenditure out of own revenue sources is linked to more responsible budgeting, because the financial implications of spending decisions then are internalized within a jurisdiction. We test this proposition...

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Fiscal federalism in a monetary union : the cooperation pitfall

Kempf, Hubert - 2017

Fiscal federalism may not be a panacea in a monetary union if it does not address the non-cooperative behaviour between fiscal policymakers. To prove this, we assess the relative merits of a fiscal federalism scheme in a monetary union and intergovernmental fiscal cooperation without such a...

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Partisan determinants of federal highway grants

Goetzke, Frank; Hankins, William; Hoover, Gary A. - 2017

Using data on federal highway grants from the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration, this paper investigates several questions regarding the political economy of highway funding. We investigate the period 1994 - 2008 and examine whether political alignment and political...

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Regional risk sharing and redistribution : the role of fiscal mechanisms in Switzerland

Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Studerus, Janine - 2018

Swiss cantons and explicit fiscal transfers between the federal government and the cantons. Based on panel-data analysis we … study the redistributive and stabilizing properties of fiscal equalization transfers, federal government transfers in … cantons translate into differences of long-run disposable income after taxes and transfers of about 80 cents. The combined …

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Fiscal transfers in the spatial economy

Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias; Südekum, Jens - 2018

cities and towards remote areas with low productivity. But despite this output loss, fiscal transfers may still raise …

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Regional resources and democratic secessionism

Gehring, Kai; Schneider, Stephan A. - 2018

in established democracies has largely been neglected. We integrate regional resource value and inter-regional transfers …

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