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Beyond the centre : tracing decentralization's influence on time-varying fiscal sustainability
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Jalles, João Tovar; … - 2024
This paper explores the nuanced relationship between fiscal decentralization and fiscal sustainability. Employing panel … data analyses, it scrutinizes how decentralization influences fiscal discipline across different governmental levels …. Results for 185 countries show that while tax decentralization often hampers the degree of fiscal responsiveness, potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014543839
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Government Spending and Tax Revenue Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency : Do Natural Disasters Matter?
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023
empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … estimate the effect of decentralization on public sector efficiency and how extreme natural disasters mediate this relationship …. The sample covers 36 OECD countries between 2006 and 2019. Our results show that tax revenue decentralization decreases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356487
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Government Spending and Tax Revenue Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency : Do Natural Disasters Matter?
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023
empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … estimate the effect of decentralization on public sector efficiency and how extreme natural disasters mediate this relationship …. The sample covers 36 OECD countries between 2006 and 2019. Our results show that tax revenue decentralization decreases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344718
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Assessing long-term fiscal developments : a new approach
Afonso, António; Agnello, Luca; Furceri, Davide - 2009
We use a new approach to assess long-term fiscal developments. By analyzing the time varying behaviour of the two components of government spending and revenue responsiveness and persistence - we are able to infer about the sources of fiscal behaviour. Drawing on quarterly data we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832368
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Government spending and tax revenue decentralization and public sector efficiency : do natural disasters matter?
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023
empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … estimate the effect of decentralization on public sector efficiency and how extreme natural disasters mediate this relationship …. The sample covers 36 OECD countries between 2006 and 2019. Our results show that tax revenue decentralization decreases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280082
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Assessing Long-Term Fiscal Developments : A New Approach
Afonso, António; Agnello, Luca; Furceri, Davide; … - 2009
We use a new approach to assess long-term fiscal developments. By analyzing the time-varying behaviour of the two components of government spending and revenue - responsiveness and persistence - we are able to infer about the sources of fiscal behaviour. Drawing on quarterly data we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210043
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Local Property Tax Reform and Municipality Spending Efficiency
Afonso, António; Venâncio, Ana - 2022
We investigate the effect on municipality spending efficiency of a local property tax reform, which reduced in 2008 the upper limit of the property tax. We compute municipality efficiency scores via data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) from 2005 to 2011, and then we rely in a panel data set to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177572
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Local property tax reform and municipality spending efficiency
Afonso, António; Venâncio, Ana - 2022
We investigate the effect on municipality spending efficiency of a local property tax reform, which reduced in 2008 the upper limit of the property tax. We compute municipality efficiency scores via data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) from 2005 to 2011, and then we rely in a panel data set to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803767
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Assessing long-term fiscal developments - a new approach
Afonso, António; Agnello, Luca; Furceri, Davide; … - 2009
We use a new approach to assess long-term fiscal developments. By analyzing the time varying behaviour of the two components of government spending and revenue - responsiveness and persistence - we are able to infer about the sources of fiscal behaviour. Drawing on quarterly data we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605078
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Beyond the Centre: Tracing Decentralization's Influence on Time-varying Fiscal Sustainability
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Jalles, João Tovar; … - 2024
This paper explores the nuanced relationship between fiscal decentralization and fiscal sustainability. Employing panel … data analyses, it scrutinizes how decentralization influences fiscal discipline across different governmental levels …. Results for 185 countries show that while tax decentralization often hampers the degree of fiscal responsiveness, potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014574299