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Der Föderalismus in Deutschland ist in den letzten Jahren zunehmend in den Brennpunkt politischer Auseinandersetzungen geraten. Bemängelt wird in der Diskussion vor allem eine zunehmende Verflechtung von Ausgabe- und Einnahmekompetenzen von Bund und Ländern sowie ein Finanzsystem, das den...
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Although decision processes at the EU level are highly complex and often require unanimity, explicit side payments among member states are unknown. However, logrolling and redistributive policies are substitutes. This paper considers the EU regional policy as a substitute for explicit side...
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This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment. Matching grants for investment in infrastructure are...
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This paper analyzes how mobility of post-graduate skilled workers and students across different countries affects the quality level of higher education and the way education is financed. We start by examining a closed economy. In the presence of imperfect credit markets the education level with...
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This paper compares the decentral organization of unemployment insurance in member states of a state union with the central organization at the upper union’ level. In a model of two countries the labor force and the firm owners can migrate between the states. Labor markets exhibit unemployment...
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Our study compares the efficiency of unemployment insurance programs in a state union. A centralized insurance pools the cost of unemployment which implies a collective bargaining in the countries that leads to excessively high wages and inefficient insurance. Those high wages attract workers...
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This paper analyzes how mobility of post-graduate skilled workers and students across different countries affects the quality level of higher education and the way education is financed. We start by examining a closed economy. In the presence of imperfect credit markets the education level with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094493
We treat fiscal equalization between two states as an insurance device against regional tax revenue variations. This insurance comes at the price of a moral hazard: regional governments will spend too little effort fostering and exploiting their local tax base. We show that total fiscal...
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This paper considers the EU regional policy and analyzes two kinds of externalities that can explain why matching grants are used to subsidize regional infrastructure: horizontal pecuniary externalities via capital markets, and positive vertical fiscal externalities created by the financing of...
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Although decision processes at the EU level are highly complex and often require unanimity, explicit side payments among member states are unknown. However, logrolling and redistributive policies are substitutes. This paper considers the EU regional policy as a substitute for explicit side...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765988