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Local Political Budget Cycles in a Federation: Evidence from West German Cities
Furdas, Marina; Homolkova, Katerina; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper analyzes the occurrence of political budget cycles in 604 West German cities between 1975 and 2007. Due to the idiosyncratic timing of state and local elections, the budgetary changes before elections at two tiers of the federalist government can be separately estimated and can also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156469
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597515
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Local Political Budget Cycles in a Federation: Evidence from West German Cities
Furdas, Marina; Homolkova, Katerina; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2015
This paper analyzes the occurrence of political budget cycles in 604 West German cities between 1975 and 2007. Due to the idiosyncratic timing of state and local elections, the budgetary changes before elections at two tiers of the federalist government can be separately estimated and can also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500294
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Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; Moreira, Diana B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption involving educational block grants transferred from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570795
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Corrupting learning: Evidence from missing federal education funds in Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; Moreira, Diana B. - 2012
This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption involving educational block grants transferred from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287581
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The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir, Bambang Suharnoko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010733807
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The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir, Bambang Suharnoko - 2014
We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329170
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Public Budget Composition, Fiscal (De)Centralization and Welfare
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
composition. Only when the differences are sufficiently large does full decentralization become the optimal regime. National … conjecture" that fiscal decentralization increases capital accumulation. However, in terms of welfare this result can be reversed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703092
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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico
Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Herrera, … - 2020
A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207829
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Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule
Bordignon, Massimo; Nannicini, Tommaso; Tabellini, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy and hence policy volatility are smaller, because the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688397