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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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Public goods and ethnic divisions
Alesina, Alberto; Baqir, Reza; Easterly, William - In: The quarterly journal of economics 114 (1999) 4, pp. 1243-1284
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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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Public employment and redistributive politics : evidence from Russia's regions
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, … - 2000
defined territorial units, and in regions which received larger federal transfers and loans. Regional governors appear to use … extract transfers. …
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Government and cities : contests and the decentralization of decision making
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
Governments do not have perfect information regarding the priorities and the needs of different groups in the economy. This lack of knowledge opens the door for different groups to lobby the government in order to receive the government's support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and...
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The rise in obesity across the Atlantic : an economic perspective
Brunello, Giorgio (contributor);  … - 2008
We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...
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Understanding the economic consequences of shifting trends in population health
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, Darius - 2009
The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy - with a concomitant decrease in the public-sector's annuity burden - but these savings may be offset by worsening...
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International differences in longevity and health and their economic consequences
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, Darius - 2009
In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...
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