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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141358
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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 … partial decentralization. A capital poor median voter wants to use capital taxes to provide public goods. This results in … lowers returns to redistribution. The median voter would therefore like to commit to a lower level of capital taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765361
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Expenditure Competition
Gordon, Roger H.; Wilson, John D. - 2021
response. In this paper, we explore the effect that competition for residents induced by fiscal decentralization has on 'waste … an additional advantage of fiscal decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227493
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Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies
Traub, Leah Goldman - 2010
simple model of the interaction between the federal and state governments in such a scheme of partial decentralization. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759960
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Transfers
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2021
In this paper I develop a positive theory of intergenerational transfers. I argue that transfers are a means to induce … theory in this paper is consistent with a number of regularities: transfers appear to be a luxury good that societies buy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311879
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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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Local Property and State Income Taxes : The Role of Interjurisdictional Competition and Collusion
Nechyba, Thomas J. - 2022
This paper attempts to address two long standing questions in Public Finance: (i) why is the property tax, despite popular complaints about its fairness, the almost exclusive tax instrument used by local governments, and (ii) why do we consistently observe higher levels of governments undermine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323556
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Fiscal Unions
Werning, Iván - 2012
, government spending, fiscal deficits, and redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102600
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An Optimal Taxation Approach to Fiscal Federalism
Gordon, Roger H. - 2021
In a Federal system of government, each unit of government decides independently how much of each type of public good to provide, and what types of taxes, and which tax rates, to use in funding the public goods. In this paper we explore what types of problems can arise from this decentralized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210669
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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