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Do Municipal Mergers Reduce Costs? Evidence from a German Federal State
Blesse, Sebastian - 2016
We study the fiscal consequences of municipal mergers by making use of a largescale merger reform in the German federal state of Brandenburg. This reform, which was implemented from 2001 to 2003, led to a substantial reduction in the number of municipalities. Individual mergers were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991992
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Do Municipal Mergers Reduce Costs? Evidence from a German Federal State
Blesse, Sebastian - 2014
The extant empirical evidence on the fiscal consequences of municipal mergers is ambiguous. We therefore revisit this question by making use of a merger reform in the German federal state of Brandenburg in 2003. In addition to identifying the causal effects of mergers on municipal expenditures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061822
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Fiscal federalism, decentralization and economic growth : survey and meta-analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2014
The theoretical literature on the economics of fiscal federalism has identified several potential effects of government … decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision … of public services. However, decentralization may also increase growth by raising the ability of the political system to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412862
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Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization and Economic Growth : Survey and Meta-Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2014
The theoretical literature on the economics of fiscal federalism has identified several potential effects of government … decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision … of public services. However, decentralization may also increase growth by raising the ability of the political system to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045930
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Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle : evidence from Israel
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Blesse, Sebastian; Brender, Adi; … - 2015
This paper examines whether revenue decentralization and direct external financial supervision affect the incidence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281657
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Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle : evidence from Israel
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Blesse, Sebastian; Brender, Adi; … - 2015
This paper examines whether revenue decentralization and direct external financial supervision affect the incidence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300741
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Tax mimicking in the short- and the long-run: Evidence from German reunification
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2015
This paper uses the quasi-experiment of Germany's reunification to identify local tax mimicking by municipalities in Eastern-Germany. After reunification, East-German municipalities were allowed to independently set, for the first time in decades, local business and property tax rates. I explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301684
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The revenue and base effects of local tax hikes: Evidence from a quasi-experiment
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2015
This paper studies the revenue and base effects of local property and business tax hikes using a natural experiment in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Due to a reform of the local equalization scheme in 2003, a set of municipalities in NRW increased their local tax rates by one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331389
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Depressing dependence? Transfers and economic growth in the German States, 1975-2005
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah - 2017
Most countries pay substantial intergovernmental transfers to poor regions with the aim of achieving regional convergence. Consequently, transfers should have a positive effect on economic growth. However, it is equally possible that transfers perpetuate under-development. This paper studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602888
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Subnational border reforms and economic development in Africa
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Blesse, Sebastian - 2019
Arbitrarily designed borders have been identified by a recent literature as an important reason why sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the poorest regions on the globe. Accordingly, border changes may be a way to promote growth on the African continent. In this paper, we study the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004438