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Regional risk sharing and redistribution : the role of fiscal mechanisms in Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Studerus, Janine - 2018
This paper analyses the importance of fiscal mechanisms for regional risk sharing and redistribution in Switzerland …. Switzerland is a particularly interesting setting in this context because it features both a high level of fiscal autonomy for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795017
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Regional risk sharing and redistribution : the role of fiscal mechanisms in Switzerland
Studerus, Janine; Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - In: Essays in public economics, (pp. 111-150). 2018
und die Umverteilung von regionalen Einkommensunterschieden in der Schweiz. Untersucht werden das nationale …The third chapter analyses the importance of various fiscal mechanisms for regional risk sharing and redistribution in … Switzerland. The fiscal mechanisms included are fiscal equalization transfers, federal government transfers in general, direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963766
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Regional risk sharing and redistribution : the role of fiscal mechanisms in Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Studerus, Janine - 2018
This paper analyses the importance of fiscal mechanisms for regional risk sharing and redistribution in Switzerland …. Switzerland is a particularly interesting setting in this context because it features both a high level of fiscal autonomy for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787451
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The dynamics of redistribution, inequality and growth across China’s regions
Yang, Xiaoliang; Barros, Lucy; Matthews, Kent; Meenagh, … - 2023
China's fast growth has been accompanied by rising regional inequality, triggering debate over a policy trade-off between aggregate growth and equity. We set out a three-region model of China in which local government behavior affects local TFP dynamics, and regional inequality itself generates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014456599
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Institutional quality as the driver of fiscal decentralization in developing countries
Digdowiseiso, Kumba - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-18
In this essay, I argue that the various institutional settings of fiscal decentralization observed in developing countries are contingent on institutional quality. Other incentives may exist for policymakers to change the degrees of fiscal power. My research is based on a five-year average of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503099
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Fiscal decentralization and the distributive incidence of the Great Recession
Beramendi, Pablo; Rogers, Melissa Ziegler - In: Regional studies : official journal of the Regional … 54 (2020) 7, pp. 881-896
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265068
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Risk sharing, regional stabilization, and redistribution : the role of fiscal mechanisms in Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Studerus, Janine - In: Oxford economic papers 73 (2021) 2, pp. 601-622
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Fiscal constitutions : an empirical assessment
Blöchliger, Hansjörg; Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw - 2015
Fiscal constitutions comprise the set of rules and frameworks guiding fiscal policy that are enshrined in a country’s fundamental laws. This paper compares the fiscal constitutions of 15 federal countries by empirically assessing five building blocks: 1) the power of sub-national governments...
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Regional health care decentralization in unitary states : equal spending, equal satisfaction?
Costa-Font, Joan; Turati, Gilberto - 2016
Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497899
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Voluntary Matching Grants Can Forestall Social Dumping
Dreze, Jacques H.; Figuieres, Charles; Hindriks, Jean - 2021
allocation of factors and the optimal level of redistribution in the presence of factor mobility. We use a fiscal competition … model a la Wildasin (1991), in which states differ in their technologies and preferences for redistribution. We first … shown to increase total production and the level of redistribution. However, it does not guarantee that all districts gain …
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