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The Political Competition-Economic Performance Puzzle: Evidence from the OECD Countries and the Italian Regions
Padovano, Fabio; Ricciuti, Roberto - CESifo - 2008
Empirical tests of the theories on the relationship between political competition and economic performance generate a puzzle: data tend to support the theory at the lower levels of government, but not in panels of countries. We argue that the larger set of policy instruments reduces the tax...
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The political competition-economic performance puzzle : evidence from the OECD countries and the Italian regions
Padovano, Fabio (contributor); Ricciuti, Roberto (contributor) - 2008
over 1984-2000 and find support for our predictions. -- Political competition ; growth ; redistribution ; national and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763178
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The Presidency, Regionalism, and Distributive Politics in South Korea
Horiuchi, Yusaku; Seungjoo, Lee - 2011
Although whether there is political influence on distributive policies is now indisputable, important debates have emerged about how politics distorts distributive policy outcomes. In this article, the authors improve the understanding of distributive politics by focusing on South Korea. They...
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Fiscal Rules for Sub-central Governments : Design and Impact
Sutherland, Douglas - 2005
Against a background of mounting demands for spending on services provided by sub-central governments, this paper examines how fiscal rules can help to ensure that pressure on resources is minimised and available resources are used efficiently. Drawing on questionnaire responses and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445608
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Fiscal rules for sub-central governments : Design and impact
Sutherland, Douglas - 2018
Against a background of mounting demands for spending on services provided by sub-central governments, this paper examines how fiscal rules can help to ensure that pressure on resources is minimised and available resources are used efficiently. Drawing on questionnaire responses and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454335
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The Political Competition-Economic Performance Puzzle : Evidence from the OECD Countries and the Italian Regions
Padovano, Fabio - 2008
Empirical tests of the theories on the relationship between political competition and economic performance generate a puzzle: data tend to support the theory at the lower levels of government, but not in panels of countries. We argue that the larger set of policy instruments reduces the tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770181
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Political competition and economic performance evidence from the Italian regions
Padovano, Fabio; Ricciuti, Roberto - In: Public choice 138 (2009) 3/4, pp. 263-277
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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis
Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
redistribution and a modest effect of two year led inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544770
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Non-Uniform Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Economic Growth : A State Level Analysis in India
Agarwal, Anmol - 2019
In this paper, I examine the impact of fiscal decentralization on state-level economic growth in India. There is little … growth. My results suggest that, while both expenditure and revenue decentralization strongly impact economic growth … decentralization lend support to a non-uniform impact of fiscal decentralization on growth across states in India. These findings call …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860895
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Fiscal federalism in Nigeria : implication for growth
Onwioduokit, Emmanuel Ating; Esu, Godwin Essang - In: West African journal of monetary and economic integration 18 (2018) 2, pp. 70-95
Nigeria has been a federation before 1963. This was expected to foster speedy growth and development, but military … terms of its impact on economic growth, so as to uphold or refute the claims of the defects in the present status quo. Time … actually foster economic growth, but this growth may have been inhibited by corruption, ineffective leadership, unconducive …
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