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Evaluating the Efficiency and Equity of Federal Fiscal Equalization
Albouy, David - 2010
In theory, federal transfers that make household location decisions efficient should ignore local cost differences …
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Fiscal Rules, Bailouts, and Reputation in Federal Governments
Dovis, Alessandro - 2017
Expectations of transfers by central governments incentivize overborrowing by local governments. In this paper, we ask if fiscal rules can reduce overborrowing if central governments cannot commit. We study a model in which the central government's type is unknown and show that fiscal rules...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945158
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Fiscal Federalism and Legislative Malapportionment : Causal Evidence from Independent But Related Natural Experiments
Galiani, Sebastian - 2014
We exploit three natural experiments in Argentina in order to study the role of legislative malapportionment on the biased federal tax sharing scheme prevalent in the country. We do not find support to attribute it to legislative malapportionment during periods when democratic governments were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056579
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Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance
Levitt, Steven D.; Poterba, James M. - 2021
This paper tests several theories of the effects of congressional representation on state economic growth. States that were represented by very senior Democratic congressmen grew more quickly during the 1953-1990 period than states that were represented by more junior congressional delegations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226176
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Education, Welfare, and the "New" Federalism : State Budgeting in a Federalist Public Economy
Craig, Steven G.; Inman, Robert P. - 2021
President Reagan's proposal for a "New Federalism" raises a fundamental challenge to our current structure of Federal …-state-local fiscal relations.This research examInes the lIkely consequences of the New Federalism for fiscal allocations by state … and more on tax relief and the numerous other state activities. Second, the New Federalism, as it relaxes the spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234083
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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System
Brown, Charles; Oates, Wallace E. - 2021
This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213096
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Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition : Learning from South Africa
Inman, Robert P. - 2010
We present a model of a peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy using federal governance as a constitutional means to protect the economic interests of the once ruling elite. Under quot;democratic federalismquot; the constitution creates an annual policy game where the new majority and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759609
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Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies
Traub, Leah Goldman - 2010
Under most federal environmental laws and some health and safety laws, states may apply for quot;primacy,quot; that is, authority to implement and enforce federal law, through a process known as quot;authorization.quot; Some observers fear that states use authorization to adopt more lax policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759960
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A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization
Hatfield, John William - 2009
We revisit the classic problem of tax competition in the context of federal nations, and derive a positive theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765361
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Is it is or is it Ain't My Obligation? Regional Debt in a Fiscal Federation
Cooper, Russell - 2015
This paper studies the repayment of regional debt in a multi-region economy with a central authority: who pays the obligation issued by a region? With commitment, a central government will use its taxation power to smooth distortionary taxes across regions. Absent commitment, the central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750657