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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …