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Alesina, Alberto - 2001

We construct a set of indicators to measure the policy-making role of the European Union (European Council, Parliament, Commission, Court of Justice, etc.), in a selected number of policy domains. Our goal is to examine the division of prerogatives between European institutions and national...

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Decentralizing Education Resources : School Grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...

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Regional Transfers

Corbi, Raphael - 2014

transfers to municipal governments in Brazil to identify the causal effect of municipal spending on local labor markets, using a … spending was financed by local tax revenues rather than regional transfers …

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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...

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Macro Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions : States as Agents

Carlino, Gerald - 2013

. We examine the historical experience of federal government transfers to state and local governments and their impact on … incorporates federal intergovernmental transfers, disaggregated into project (e.g., infrastructure) aid and welfare aid, as …. First, aggregate federal transfers to state and local governments are less stimulative than are transfers to households and …

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Fiscal Unions

Werning, Ivan - 2012

operation. The constrained efficient risk sharing arrangement can be implemented by contingent transfers within a fiscal union …

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Corrupting Learning : Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil

Ferraz, Claudio - 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...

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Accounting for the Duality of the Italian Economy

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Laudati, Dario; Ohanian, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

After 162 years of political unification, Italy still displays large regional economic differences. In 2019, the per capita GDP of Lombardia was 39,700 euros, but Calabria's per capita GDP was only 17,300 euros. We build a two-region, two-sector model of the Italian economy to measure the wedges...

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The Political Economy of Public Debt : A Laboratory Study

Battaglini, Marco - 2016

of public debt. A legislature bargains over the levels of a public good and of district specific transfers in two periods …

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The Economics of the Public Option : Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets

Atal, Juan Pablo; Cuesta, José Ignacio; González, Felipe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the effects of competition by state-owned firms, leveraging the decentralized entry of public pharmacies to local markets in Chile. Public pharmacies sell the same drugs at a third of private pharmacy prices, because of stronger upstream bargaining and market power in the private...

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