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Agglomeration, Population Size, and the Cost of Providing Public Services: An Empirical Analysis for German States

Stegarescu, Dan; Schwager, Robert; Büttner, Thiess - 2004

This paper is concerned with the question as to what extent population size and density affect the cost of providing public services at the subnational level. Empirical estimates of cost functions are obtained from an analysis of the expenditures of German states disaggregated into about 40...

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Tax Incentives and the Location of FDI: Evidence from a Panel of German Multinationals

Büttner, Thiess; Ruf, Martin - 2004

Using a firm-level dataset this paper investigates the impact of taxation on the decision of German multinationals to hold direct investments in other European countries or abroad. Controlling for firm-specific differences in the valuation of potential locations, the results confirm significant...

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Central wage bargaining and local wage flexibility: evidence from the entire wage distribution

Büttner, Thiess; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1998

We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages negotiated under central wage bargaining affects the...

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Regional Stabilization by Fiscal Equalization? Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence from Germany

Büttner, Thiess - 1999

actually favors stabilization. In an empirical analysis for Germany, the paper adds support for the finding of significant … regional stabilization by fiscal flows. The results indicate that about 17 % of GDP variation across West Germany's states has … been removed by fiscal flows during the last two decades. Thus, in Germany where the fiscal federalism is criticised for …

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Public Sector Centralization and Productivity Growth: Reviewing the German Experience

Stegarescu, Dan; Büttner, Thiess; Behnisch, Alexej - 2002

The paper examines the role of the vertical structure of the public sector for economic growth in Germany in a long …

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Local Determinants of Crime: Distinguishing Between Resident and Non-resident Offenders

Spengler, Hannes; Büttner, Thiess - 2003

The paper revisits the local determinants of crime using a spatial model distinguishing between resident and non-resident offenders. Employing data for German municipalities, the model is estimated by means of a spatial GMM approach. Focusing on resident offenders legal earnings opportunities...

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