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The System of Revenue Sharing and Fiscal Transfers in China
Wang, Xiao; Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
The main features of China’s current sub-national finance arrangements date back to the 1994 tax reform. China has a … government has raised the scale of transfers. Over the past decade, China’s transfer policy has addressed the horizontal … strong budgets. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of China (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/china …
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Incentives to Provide Local Public Goods: Fiscal Federalism, Russian Style
Ekatherina, Zhuravskaya - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2000
Based on unique data set on Russian city budgets, this paper shows that revenue sharing between regional and local governments provides local governments with no incentive to increase tax base or provide public goods. Any change in local government’s own revenues is almost entirely offset by...
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Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One
Bird, Richard M. - Institute of Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), … - 2012
, Russia, India, China, and Nigeria—BRIC plus one. As these case studies show, intergovernmental fiscal relations in any … focused on securing a bigger share of these revenues. Both China and Russia have made important changes in the direction of … which fiscal decentralization is to be accompanied by significant political decentralization. At present, in neither China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555599
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Residential land use with demographic dynamics of young and old generations
Kono, Tatsuhito; Kotoku, Toshiaki; Otazawa, Toshimori - In: Journal of Housing Economics 21 (2012) 4, pp. 283-295
Populations of many countries are expected to decrease rapidly, with a simultaneous increase in the proportion of elderly people. These population dynamics will affect residential location patterns of young and old people because of their different preferences for local (zonal) amenities. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875219
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off …
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Taxation and Public Finance in a Transition Economy : A Case Study of Russia
Preobragenskaya, Galina - 2004
Countries that are moving from central planning to a market economy face unique problems in many areas, including taxation and public finance. The methods of collecting the revenue needed to fund government services were much different under a socialist system. Shifting to a market system...
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From Theory to Practice of Economic Regulation: Ten Theses on the Draft "Law on Culture"
Rubinshtein, A. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 24 (2014) 4, pp. 210-217
Ohe paper proposes the concept of economic regulation in the sphere of culture, representing combination of four main institutions: institution of differentiated budget performance standards, that characterize the minimum share of spending on culture in the budgets of all levels that enforce to...
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Concentration of goods traffic in Spanish ports during the period 2000-2009
VALLE, Rafael REINA; MANZANARES, Francisco VILLENA - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 13 (2013) 2, pp. 59-72
This paper has as object analyze the concentration of the big groups of goods dealt in the different Spanish ports during the period 2000 2009, indicating the most relevant economic aspects that have provoked that certain ports have increased or diminished the above mentioned concentration. The...
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The mortgage interest deduction and its impact on homeownership decisions
Hilber, Christian A. L.; Turner, Tracy M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper examines the impact of the combined U.S. state and federal mortgage interest deduction (MID) on homeownership attainment, using data from 1984 to 2007 and exploiting variation in the subsidy across states, over time and due to inter-state moves. We test whether capitalization of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884709
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Deconstructing Canada's Housing Markets: Finance, Affordability and Urban Sprawl
Cheung, Calista - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
House prices have increased significantly in Canada over the past decade, driving household debt and residential construction activity to historical highs. Although macro-prudential tightening has slowed the pace of household borrowing in the last few years, house prices have continued to trend...
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