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Fiscal equalization and the tax structure
Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric - 2018
Sub-national governments often finance substantial parts of their budgets via taxes on capital or other mobile factors - despite having access to alternative, less distortionary, revenue sources. This paper develops three hypotheses to explain this pattern and tests them in a natural experiment...
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Does federalism affect e-government in Germany?
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Steinhoff, Peter - 2023
International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired "top spot" in rankings lie primarily in the inadequate provision of online services with little corresponding user orientation. In order to provide better and faster public...
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Do Party Ties Increase Transfer Receipts in Cooperative Federalism? - Evidence from Germany
Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Koehler, Ekkehard A. - 2021
Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …
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Legislative Malapportionment and the Politicization of Germany's Intergovernmental Transfer System
Pitlik, Hans; Schneider, Friedrich; Strotmann, Harald - 2021
Legislative bargaining theory suggests that fiscal transfers among member states of a federation are determined to a substantial degree by political bargaining powers. Malapportionment of the states' population in the legislature is claimed to lead to disproportionally higher benefits to...
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Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? - evidence from Germany
Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2020
Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291881
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Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? : evidence from Germany
Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2022 - This version: 22nd August 2022
Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013399870
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Does Federalism Affect E-Government in Germany?
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang Woon; Steinhoff, Peter - 2023
International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired “top spot” in rankings lie primarily in the inadequate provision of online services with little corresponding user orientation. In order to provide better and faster public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261030
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The German Financial Equalisation System : Taking Account of Differences in Governmental Purchasing Powers
Zimmer, Jochen - 2014
This paper looks at a reform proposal for the fiscal transfer system in Germany to take account of differences in governmental purchasing powers across states. Since data on differences in governmental purchasing power is missing for the states, differences in intergovernmental purchasing power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053797
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Neugliederung des Bundesgebietes - oder Kooperation der Bundesländer?
Benz, Arthur; Detemple, Jessica; Erbguth, Wilfried; … - 2015
constitutional rules of fiscal federalism. This requires a policy of reform of the federation to have a long-term strategic …
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Electoral externalities in federations : evidence from German opinion polls
Frei, Xenia; Langer, Sebastian; Lehmann, Robert; … - 2017 - This version: February 20, 2017
Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting dynamics and vice versa (electoral externalities). We quantify the extent of simultaneous electoral externalities between two layers of government. We apply vector autoregressions...
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