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Local or national environmental spending in Italy: a stochastic frontier analysis
Auci, Sabrina; Castelli, Annalisa; Vignani, Donatella - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The design of environmental spending at the national or local level stands on the concept of subsidiarity and on the theory of fiscal federalism. The main question is, so forth, studying when centralization of a public economic function, such as the protection of the environment, is welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108974
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Federalism and economic development in India: An assessment
Singh, Nirvikar; Srinivasan, T.N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic development outcomes, and of the country’s federal institutions, the analysis focuses on the major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787082
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Decentralization, Subnational Governments' Behaviour and Macroeconomic Instability: The Case of Malaysia
Jalil, Abdul; Zafarullah, Ahmad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In the last two decades there has been a worldwide interest in decentralization of government in all parts of the world … effects of decentralization on macroeconomic stability. Even though there is a huge literature both theoretically and … empirically on the impact of decentralization, not many of them seems to be interested on the question of the link between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490509
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Fiscal Federalism and Decentralization in Mongolia
Lkhagvadorj, Ariunaa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
transition countries have developed a variety of forms of fiscal decentralization as a possible strategy to achieve effective and … efficient governmental structures. A generalized principle of decentralization due to the country specific circumstances does … not exist. Therefore, decentralization has taken place in different forms in various countries at different times, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839209
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Meltzer-Richard and social mobility hypothesis: revisiting the income-redistribution nexus using German choice data
Pfarr, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Whereas the supply of redistribution is relatively easy to measure, the determinants of the demand for redistribution are controversially discussed in international literature. Economic theory typically models redistribution as the result of a voting mechanism; this is only inadequately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259582
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Income redistribution through taxes and social benefits: the case of Slovenia and Croatia
Cok, Mitja; Urban, Ivica; Verbič, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The article analyses the redistributive effect attained by personal income tax, social security contributions and social benefits in Slovenia and Croatia. The redistributive effect is decomposed first to reveal progressivity and horizontal inequity effects, and further to show contributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260428
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Distribution of personal income tax changes in Slovenia
Cok, Mitja; Sambt, Joze; Kosak, Marko; Verbic, Miroslav; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Slovenia belongs to a group of EU member states that have reduced their personal income tax burden during the current financial and economic crisis. The latest changes, introduced in the personal income tax system during the last two years, have primarily reduced the tax burden on low-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203641
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A Single-Mindedness model with n generations
Emanuele, Canegrati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I will introduce a new expression for the balanced-budget constraint, no longer based on lump- sum transfers as in the traditional literature, but rather on more realistic labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835397
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On redistribution effects of public debt amongst single-minded generations
Canegrati, Emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I will introduce a new political economy model, where there exists a competition amongst two political candidates, which aim to set a policy which enables them to win elections, max- imising the probability of winning. I will show that, if taxes neces- sary to repay the debt are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616677
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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve
Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919738