Hepp, Ralf; Hagen, Jürgen von - In: Publius: The Journal of Federalism 42, 2, pp. 234-259
We provide estimates of the risk-sharing and redistributive properties of the German federal fiscal system based on data from 1970 to 2006, with special attention to the effects of German unification. Tax revenue sharing between the states and the federal government and the fiscal equalization...