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Collective Lobbying in Politics: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Sweden
Liang, Che-Yuan - 2008
This paper first formulates a model of how the politicians in a local government collectively lobby to raise intergovernmental grants to their local government. The model identifies a relationship between council size and grants received. I then study this relationship empirically using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321552
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Bringing French public debt down: The options for fiscal consolidation
Egert, Balazs - 2012
France has a track record of persistent general government deficits, partly reflecting pro-cyclical fiscal policies in upswings. This has resulted in a quadrupling of its public debt-to-GDP ratio since the 1970s to above 80% of GDP. Reducing public debt is crucial because a high level of public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288248
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Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economy
Janský, Petr; Palanský, Miroslav - 2016
In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653985
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Power to the people? The impact of decentralization on governance
Dreher, Axel - 2006
The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five … measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated …. Results for a panel of about 70 countries over the period 1984-2001 are also presented. The results show that decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285903
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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/10011301339
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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/10011279551
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The power of parties
Fiva, Jon H.; Folke, Olle; Sørensen, Rune J. - 2013
As with the market for goods and services, democratic competition involves political parties offering their services (policy programs) to citizen-consumers who vote for their preferred partisan supplier. Little is known about the partial effect of a shift in parties' seat shares for given voter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291659
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Grant Dependence, Regulation and the Effects of Formula-based Grant Systems on German Local Governments: A Data Report for Saxony-Anhalt
Haug, Peter - 2013
Recent empirical studies have found - seemingly - efficiency-enhancing effects of vertical grants on local public service provision. The main purpose of this paper is to prepare an elaborate theoretical and empirical analysis of these contradictory results. Therefore, it investigates if certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292381
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Public Sector Decentralization: Measurement Concepts and Recent International Trends
Stegarescu, Dan - 2004
This paper deals with the problems encountered in defining and measuring the degree of fiscal decentralization. Drawing … on a recent analytical framework of the OECD, different measures of fiscal autonomy and revenue decentralization are …-making competencies in the course of time, new time series of annual data on the degree of fiscal decentralization are provided for 23 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297396
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Costs, Preferences, and Institutions: An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Government Decentralization
Stegarescu, Dan - 2005
-national differences in the degree of fiscal decentralization. Accounting for taxing powers of subnational governments, the evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297446