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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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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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Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in OECD Countries : Is There a Relationship?
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2009
We study the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 23 OECD countries from 1975 to 2001 … by using new panel data on sub-federal tax autonomy. While initial estimations suggest that fiscal decentralization … evidence for a negative relationship in a number of additional robustness checks. We thus conclude that fiscal decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157658
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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/10011300741
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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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Creative Destruction and Fiscal Institutions:A Long-Run Case Study of Three Regions
Schnellenbach, Jan; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009
We analyze the rise and decline of the steel and mining industries in the regionsof Saarland, Lorraine und Luxemburg over a long period, from the mid-19th century to 2003.Our main focus in on the period of structural decline in these industries after the secondworld war. Dierences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005867729
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Supranational Integration And National Reorganization
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2009
We explore the implications of European integration for scal decentralization in EU member states with a dataset on 21 … decentralization has increased in EU countries after the signing of the Maastricht treaty. The treaty's eect on expenditure … decentralization also seems to be positive, but is less clear-cut. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220961
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On the Link Between Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt in OECD Countries
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2010
Excessive borrowing by subnational governments is considered to be one of the perils of fiscal decentralization. On the … other hand, fiscal decentralization might ensure the scal stability of the public sector by constraining Leviathan … that expenditure decentralization signicantly reduces public indebtedness, whereas tax decentralization and vertical fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220963