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Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023

In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this...

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Public procurement in the presence of capital taxation

Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 1999

The paper considers governments' public procurement decision as a way of influencing industry structure. In a federation in which capital is mobile and capital taxation is harmonized, a home bias in public procurement can potentially be explained as an effort to increase the capital intensity of...

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Public procurement in the presence of capital taxation

Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

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Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Blesse, Sebastian; Brender, Adi; … - 2015

This paper examines whether revenue decentralization and direct external financial supervision affect the incidence and …

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Public Sector Decentralization: Measurement Concepts and Recent International Trends

Stegarescu, Dan - 2004

This paper deals with the problems encountered in defining and measuring the degree of fiscal decentralization. Drawing … on a recent analytical framework of the OECD, different measures of fiscal autonomy and revenue decentralization are …-making competencies in the course of time, new time series of annual data on the degree of fiscal decentralization are provided for 23 …

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Economic Integration and Fiscal Decentralization: Evidence from OECD Countries

Stegarescu, Dan - 2004

decentralization in OECD countries. Based on a theoretical framework, the empirical panel analysis relates the degree of public sector … decentralization to economic and European integration, controlling for inter-regional heterogeneity, economies of scale, and …

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Costs, Preferences, and Institutions: An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Government Decentralization

Stegarescu, Dan - 2005

-national differences in the degree of fiscal decentralization. Accounting for taxing powers of subnational governments, the evidence …

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Centralizing Tendencies in the Public Sector in Germany

Stegarescu, Dan - 2005

clear evidence for a causal relationship between economic and European integration and fiscal decentralization in the case …

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Efficient Revenue Sharing and Upper Level Governments: Theory and Application to Germany

Buettner, Thiess; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Schwager, Robert - 2006

Recent literature has emphasized that redistributive grant systems may tend to internalize fiscal externalities arising from tax competition. This paper further explores the conditions under which local grant systems enforced by the state government will enhance efficiency. A system of...

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Vertical income tax externalities and fiscal interdependence: evidence from the US

Esteller-Moré, Álex; Solé-Ollé, Albert - 1999

Concurrent taxation is a feature of many federal systems. As a consequence of this fact, the tax policy of one level of government affects the tax base of the other. This paper carries out a theoretical analysis of the interdependent tax-setting decisions of federal and regional governments,...

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