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Ökonomische Anreizwirkungen im bundesstaatlichen Finanzausgleich

Hechtner, Frank - 2013

Der bundesstaatliche Finanzausgleich als Säule eines Solidarsystems der jeweiligen (Bundes-) Länder untereinander steht … Aspekte, die im bestehenden und in einem zukünftigen Ausgleichssystem zu beachten sind. Der (Länder-) Finanzausgleich im … engeren Sinne nimmt dabei eine bedeutende Rolle im gesamten bundesstaatlichen Finanzausgleich ein, sodass auf diesen ein …

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Refugee Migration and the Politics of Redistribution: Do Supply and Demand Meet?

Matakos, Konstantinos; Savolainen, Riikka; Tukiainen, Janne - 2020

Voter demand for less redistribution in the face of mass migration maps into actual outcomes insofar as politicians supplying these policies respond to it. We study whether establishing new asylum-seeker centers influences redistributive outcomes in Finnish local elections - a country where...

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Does expenditure composition influence the debt level? : evidence from German federal states

Stegarescu, Dan - 2013

Despite strongly equalized per capita revenue and similar budgetary institutions, fiscal performance is increasingly diverging across German federal states. Given that state and local governments are endowed with expenditure autonomy, this paper investigates whether the composition of...

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Favoritism by the governing elite

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023

In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this...

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Fiscal federalism and tax enforcement

Bönke, Timm; Joachimsen, Beate; Schröder, Carsten - 2015

In many countries organized as federations, fiscal-equalization schemes have been implemented to mitigate vertical or horizontal imbalances. Such schemes usually imply that the member states of the federation can only partly internalize marginal tax revenue before redistribution. Aside from this...

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The fiscal architecture of the EU cohesion policy

Thöne, Michael - 2024

In its current setup, the European Union is often characterised as slow, decision-impeding, inefficient and therefore not really ready for enlargement. The pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis and the increasingly uncertain role in the global economy have further increased the high...

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Migration effects on municipalities' expenditures

Viren, Matti - 2016

In this paper we examine how Finnish municipalities' expenditures depend on the demographic structure of the population. More precisely, we scrutinize the role of foreign citizens: how does the share of foreign citizens out of the total population manifest itself in total expenditures and some...

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The employment effects of countercyclical infrastructure investments

Buchheim, Lukas; Watzinger, Martin - 2017

We estimate the causal impact of a sizable German infrastructure investment program on employment at the county level. The program focused on improving the energy efficiency of school buildings, making it possible to use the number of schools as an instrument for investments. We find that the...

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The distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU

Lang, Valentin - 2024

This chapter examines the distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU. In a first step, it characterizes existing income inequalities in the EU and distinguishes between their interregional and intraregional dimensions. A key result is that inequalities within European regions make...

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The fiscal consequences of immigration: A study of local governments' expenditures

Virén, Matti E. E. - 2022

In this paper we examine how Finnish municipalities' expenditures depend on the share of citizens with foreign background out of the total population. Empirical analyses make use of Finnish panel data from 295 municipalities and 202 migrant nationalities for the period 1987- 2018. It turns out...

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