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The mainstream fiscal federalism literature has led to an instinctive belief that states receiving fiscal aid during a recession are taking advantage of the federal government in pursuit of localized benefits with dispersed costs. This policy brief by Alex Williams challenges this unreflective...
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tourism, applied to the case of the Brussels Art Nouveau heritage. The main objective of this paper is to gain insight in … discrepancies regarding visions on the tourism potential of the Brussels' Art Nouveau and the Art Nouveau patrimony's integration … stakeholder groups. The survey among visitors (N=105) was organized in the heart of Brussels and analyzed with statistical …
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landscape in the City and Region of Brussels, capital of Belgium and Europe. By scraping the iTunes App Store and Google Play … categories of Brussels apps, as well as a view on the app economy in the city. This data is then complemented by qualitative … reality check, using Brussels as a case. We find that the laggard position Brussels is currently in could be an opportunity to …
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units used as choice set (which relates to the well-known Modifiable Areal Unit Problem). Job's location choices in Brussels …
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We analyze the deficits of the German Länder for the period from 1960 to 2000 and test a number of hypotheses derived from the literature on the political economy of public expenditures and public deficits. Estimating a dynamic panel data model, we find evidence for political opportunism of the...
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Die Arbeit untersucht die bestehenden Budgetregeln in Deutschland und stellt zwei aktuelle Reformvorschläge vor, die Schweizer Schuldenbremse und die Schuldenschranke des Sachverständigenrats. Investitionen nach dem Haushaltsrecht werden mit dem Nettoinvestitionsbegriff verglichen und auf ihre...
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This paper explores the factors behind the time path of real spending and revenue in the West German states from 1975 to 2004. The empirical approach stresses robustness and takes into account a large set of economic and political variables. Our results suggest that common economic factors and,...
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We provide empirical estimates of the risksharing and redistributive properties of fiscal equalization among the states of the German federation. Fiscal equalization serves as a mechanism to insure state budgets against asymmetric revenue shocks, but provides almost no insurance against regional...
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Vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht wird gegenwärtig der Normenkontrollantrag Berlins auf Feststellung einer „extremen Haushaltsnotlage“ und Zahlung von Sonder-Bundesergänzungszuweisungen des Bundes verhandelt. Entsprechende Klagen des Saarlandes und Bremens sind eingereicht. Verhandelt...
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