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The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks

Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021

We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...

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The political resource curse

Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010

endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence refers to municipalities in Brazil, where federal transfers to municipal … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. -- Government spending ; corruption …

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Legislative term limits and state aid to local governments

Yakovlev, Pavel; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Lewis, William P. - 2012

-barrel spending, which takes the form of higher transfers from state to local governments. This finding might also imply that …-seeking ; transportation ; welfare ; education ; health ; intergovernmental aid and transfers …

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Young versus old politicians in local politics

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal; Schirner, Sebastian - 2024

Do young politicians prioritize other types of municipal spending than old politicians? We study this question using hand-collected candidate-level data on municipal elections (1996-2020), along with detailed administrative data on municipal spending in Bavaria. Our identification strategy makes...

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Fiscal competition and the composition of public spending : theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald (contributor); Caliendo, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different...

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Lebanon Education Public Expenditure Review 2017

Abdul-Hamid, Husein - 2018

This Education Public Expenditure Review (PER) analyzes public expenditures and outcomes since 2004. Its purpose is to help the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) set priorities; and make decisions on resource allocation, utilization, efficiencies, and management, and in achieving...

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Public expenditure, demography and growth : theory and evidence from India

Pranab Kumar Das; Kar, Saibal - 2016

Many countries in the developed world are ageing in terms of their distribution of population. Conversely, a number of countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the mean age close to 27 years as of present times....

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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment : do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012

We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...

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Subnational Public Expenditure Review 2019 : Fostering Decentralization in Myanmar

World Bank Group - 2019

Myanmar's decentralization of governance, financing and service delivery is taking place against aparticularly challenging backdrop. Myanmar is a country with considerable geographic and socialdiversity and a history of isolation, conflict and underdevelopment. Decades of civil conflict and...

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Uganda - Public Expenditure Review 2022-23 : Module II (B) - Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers

World Bank Group - 2024

Source Revenues (OSR), Other Government Transfers (OGT) and External Finance that are captured by LG budgets and reports …

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