Globalization and regional economic integration have increased factor mobility and have reduced commercial barriers among countries. In this context, tax competition among national (subnational) governments to attract factors of production and consumers to their respective jurisdictions became...

The present work aims to explore the existing theories about the size of the public sector and test empirically in Brazilian municipalities. The theoretical model assumes that the economy has only two sectors: the public and the private. The latter receives productivity shocks while the former...

The aim of this work is to investigate the relations between Brazilian decision making process and federalism through political process of Fiscal Responsability Law. There're some political scientists' visions that legislative projects undermining the subnational governments' interests are not...