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Decentralization, Vertical Fiscal Imbalance, and Political Selection
Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - CESifo - 2013
decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of …In a career-concern model of politics with endogenous candidacy and different types of politicians, following a … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the ’90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706006
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Decentralization, Vertical Fiscal Imbalance, and Political Selection
Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2013
decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of …In a career-concern model of politics with endogenous candidacy and different types of politicians, following a … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the '90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010819062
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Decentralization, Vertical Fiscal Imbalance, and Political Selection
Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2013
decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of …In a career-concern model of politics with endogenous candidacy and different types of politicians, following a … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the '90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011157190
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Decentralization, Vertical Fiscal Imbalance, and Political Selection
Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2013
decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of …In a career-concern model of politics with endogenous candidacy and different types of politicians, following a … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the '90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099554
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Decentralization, Vertical Fiscal Imbalance, and Political Selection
Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e … - 2014
decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of …In a career-concern model of politics with endogenous candidacy and different types of politicians, following a … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the '90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010826184
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Essays in Political Economy: Evidence from Brazil
Fernanda, Brollo - In: Rivista italiana degli economisti (2012) 1, pp. 133-142
This essay brings a synthesize of the doctoral thesis named «Essays in Political Economy: Evidence from Brazil», which provides relevant contribution towards our understanding regarding the incentives and constraints that local governments face in the context of a federalist system. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010968833
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Essays in Political Economy: Evidence from Brazil
BROLLO, Fernanda - In: Rivista Italiana degli Economisti 17 (2012) 1, pp. 133-142
This essay brings a synthesize of the doctoral thesis named "Essays in Political Economy:;Evidence from Brazil", which provides relevant contribution towards our understanding regarding the incentives and constraints that local governments face in the context of a federalist system. The analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652373
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Environmental decentralization and political centralization
Fredriksson, Per G.; Wollscheid, Jim R. - In: Ecological Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 402-410
political centralization affect the outcome of environmental decentralization? We use a cross section of up to 110 countries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939581
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Political Decentralization and Policy Experimentation
Cai, Hongbin; Treisman, Daniel - In: Quarterly Journal of Political Science 4 (2009) 1, pp. 35-58
democracy, political decentralization has been thought to stimulate policy experimentation. We reexamine the political economy … social optimum, while decentralization leads to "too little." Three effects of centralization — an "informational externality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010698753
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Do politicians shirk when reelection is certain? Evidence from the German parliament
Bernecker, Andreas - In: European Journal of Political Economy 36 (2014) C, pp. 55-70
Does stiffer electoral competition reduce political shirking? For a micro-analysis of this question, I construct a new data set spanning the years 2005 to 2012 covering biographical and political information about German Members of Parliament (MPs), including their attendance rates in voting...
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