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Voter involvement, fiscal autonomy and public sector efficiency : evidence from German municipalities
Geys, Benny (contributor); Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2008
Social and/or political involvement within the population is often argued to enhance public sector performance. The underlying idea is that engagement fosters political awareness and interest and increases the public’s monitoring ability. Still, although extensive voter involvement may put...
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Local governments in the wake of demographic change : efficiency and economies of scale in German municipalities
Geys, Benny (contributor); Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2007
than smaller ones, supporting a case for boundary reviews or more extensive inter-communal cooperation. …
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Politicians' opinions on rivals in the competition for firms : an empirical analysis of reference points near a border
Geys, Benny; Osterloh, Steffen - 2011 - This version: March 2011
Studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) public policies usually concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single analysed region, and disregard possible extra-regional effects. This paper evaluates the validity of such restriction by studying German local...
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Intergovernmental grants and public input provision : theory and evidence from Germany
Hauptmeier, Sebastian (contributor) - 2007
This paper uses a simple model of fiscal competition between local jurisdictions to analyse the impact of intergovernmental grants on the composition of public spending. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of ʺfiscal equalisationʺ coincides with a smaller overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003412064
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Efficient revenue sharing and upper level governments : theory and application to Germany
Büttner, Thiess (contributor);  … - 2006
in Germany. The results suggest that attempts of state level governments to extract fiscal resources from the local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301132
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Debt rule federalism : the case of Germany
Ciaglia, Sarah; Heinemann, Friedrich - 2012
In 2009, Germany introduced a new debt rule in its federal constitution (Grundgesetz). The socalled ‘debt brake … markets through particularly strict budgetary rules. -- Fiscal rules ; debt brake ; Germany ; fiscal federalism …
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Revenue autonomy preference in German state parliaments
Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2013
Fiscal federalism in Germany is characterized by lacking sub-national tax autonomy and intensive fiscal equalization …
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Länderautonomie in der Einkommensteuer : Konsequenzen eines Zuschlagsmodells
Büttner, Thiess; Schwager, Robert - 2000
In der Diskussion um die Reform der föderalen Finanzverfassung wird oft eine Stärkung der Steuerautonomie der Länder gefordert. Seitens der Befürworter wird die damit verbundene Ausweitung der Eigenverantwortlichkeit begrüßt, von der stärkere Anreize für eine solide Haushaltspolitik und...
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Centralizing tendencies in the public sector in Germany
Stegarescu, Dan (contributor) - 2005
This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public sector centralization in Germany … the case of Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003025562
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Knowledge flows and R&D co-operation : firm-level evidence from Germany
Schmidt, Tobias F. N. (contributor) - 2005
the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We …This paper analyzes the determinants of R&D co-operation among German manufacturing firms. Using firm level data from … two-step estimation procedure, we find a positive effect of knowledge flows on the probability of R&D co-operation in most …
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