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Majority Choice of Taxation and Redistribution in a Federation

Calabrese, Stephen - 2018

We provide a model with a federal government and multiple local governments, the former with power to levy an income tax for redistribution, and the latter choosing a local income tax, property tax, lump-sum tax or subsidy, and a local public good. Policy is set by majority choice at each tier...

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Experimentation in Federal Systems

Callander, Steven - 2013

We present a model where heterogeneous districts choose both whether to experiment and the policies to experiment with. Since districts learn from each other, the first-best requires that policy experiments converge so that innovations are useful also for neighbors. However, the equilibrium...

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Federalism with and Without Political Centralization : China Versus Russia

Blanchard, Olivier; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021

question then is why this has not happened in China. We argue that the answer lies in the degree of political centralization … researchers have argued that federalism could play a central role in development. We agree, but with an important caveat. We … believe the experience of Russia indicates that another ingredient is crucial, namely political centralization …

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Migration and Redistribution : Why the Federal Governance of an Economic Union Matters

Razin, Assaf - 2016

Federal governance matters. Policy coordination allows the economic union to exercise monopsony power over migrants. Therefore the migration volumes under the policy-competition regime exceed those under the policy-coordination regime. With loose federal governance, competition over low-skilled...

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Subsidiarity and the European Union

Inman, Robert P.; Rubinfeld, Daniel L. - 2021

essay reviews three alternative models of subsidiarity -- decentralized federalism, centralized federalism, and democratic … federalism -- and argues the current European Economic Community has evolved from decentralized to centralized to a fully …

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Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools

Cong, Lin William - 2019

The rise of centralized mining pools for risk sharing does not necessarily undermine the decentralization required for permissionless blockchains: Each individual miner's cross-pool diversification and endogenous fees charged by pools generally sustain decentralization, because larger pools...

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Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa

Osafo-Kwaako, Philip; Robinson, James Alan - 2013

In this paper we investigate the empirical correlates of political centralization using data from the Standard Cross … the importance of high population density, inter-state warfare and trade as factors leading to political centralization …. We find that while in the whole world sample these factors are indeed positively correlated with political centralization …

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Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity

Forman, Chris - 2014

We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and, similarly, that counties that were leaders...

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Centralization, Fiscal Federalism and Private School Attendance

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 2021

attendance. In particular, the common perception that centralization of public school finance will necessarily lead to greater … centralization involves an extreme equalization of the kind observed in California. Furthermore, if centralization occurs through … schools in centralizing states imply that general public school quality does not drop as a result of such centralization …

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Corps Intermédiaires, Civil Society, and the Art of Association

Levy, Jacob T. - 2015

pluralism with privilege to the absence of both. They worried that centralization, democratic or otherwise, might be the …

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