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, the theory's main insight being that the central government's electoral strength should, all else being equal, decrease … decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; vertical interactions ; partial decentralization ; elections …
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invoked federalism and state sovereignty to justify Parker’s state action doctrine. Some suggest that preemption would violate … Congress plainly intended this result.This article demonstrates that federalism and state sovereignty do not rebut the strong … of federalism is selective at best. Indeed, the Court’s rejection of the federal-state balance canon and resulting …
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We examine the question of how competition between governments within metropolitan areas affects economic growth outcomes. Using data on metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the United States, we find that the number of county governments is significantly and positively correlated with the...
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Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004: This paper models the trade-off between production and appropriation in the presence of simultaneous inter- and intra-group conflicts. The model exhibits a ' group cohesion effect ': if the contest between the groups...
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A simple Tiebout model is presented where states provide university education to both immobile and mobile students. State governments choose the quality of public universities by trading off the value of education for the local immobile student population and the costs, net of tuition revenues,...
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This paper shows that increased factor mobility might cause the ``race to the top'' in setting the minimum wage, contrary to what other studies have suggested. By focusing on geographical labor mobility, we propose a minimum wage competition model and show that minimum wage rates may increase...
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In this paper we consider two regions competing for the larger part of the investment by a mobile firm whose decision is based on the quality of human capital in each region. This in turn depends on the initial skill level and the amount of higher education in the region, with a possible...
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-mechanisms besides macro-policies, which is the right focus of this paper. This paper tries to base a theory on analysis of entrepreneurs …
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In this paper, an evolutionary theory of market competition is developed. It is rooted in concepts of Smith, Hayek and … Schumpeter but also includes modern insights of economic theory in regard to cognitive economics and innovation economics. Next … to conceptual and methodological differences, the theory diverges from standard theory by highlighting the meaning and …
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