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Private-Activity Municipal Bonds : The Political Economy of Volume Cap Allocation

Whitaker, Stephan - 2010

State governments allocate authority, under a federally imposed cap, to issue tax-exempt bonds that fund “private activities” such as industrial expansion, student loans, and low-income housing. This paper presents political economy models of the allocation process and an empirical analysis....

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Prioritization in Private-Activity-Bond Volume Cap Allocation

Whitaker, Stephan - 2011

This paper proposes and tests a structural model reflecting the process of authorizing private-activity municipal bond issuance. Private-activity municipal bonds offer tax-exempt financing for programs including industrial development, utilities, low-income housing, and student loans. The...

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Did Fire, Police, and EMS Departments Take Advantage of the 9/11 Attacks to Get More Money?

Brasington, David M. - 2018

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 increased U.S. patriotism, but did they affect voting behavior? Did fire, police, and EMS departments sense an opportunity to increase their funding after the highly-publicized rescue efforts? We find no evidence of more frequently proposed tax levies...

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Citizen Support for Increasing the Responsibilities of Local Government in European Countries : A Comparative Analysis

Van de Walle, Steven; Baker, Keith; Skelcher, Chris - 2014

The transfer of responsibilities from central to local government has often been justified on the grounds of efficiency and democracy under the principle of subsidiarity. The existing models for mapping local government power in Europe, however, are often insufficiently detailed to allow...

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Federalism and innovation support for small and medium-sized enterprises : empirical evidence in Europe

Becker, Lasse; Bizer, Kilian - 2015

Private innovative activities receive public innovation support from different political levels. Few studies have empirically evaluated the influence of political systems on the reception of public innovation support and no other studies have evaluated innovation support across Europe with CIS...

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Synthesising good practices in fiscal federalism : key recommendations from 15 years of country surveys

Forman, Kass; Dougherty, Sean M.; Blöchliger, Hansjörg - 2020

to promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Decentralisation can enable sub-central governments to provide …

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Fiscal decentralisation and economic development in selected unitary European countries

Szarowská, Irena - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 9 (2014) 1, pp. 22-40

The article provides direct empirical evidence on fiscal decentralisation and economic development in selected European … countries in a period 1995-2012. The research (based on data taken from OECD Fiscal Decentralisation Database and OECD) is …. Results of dynamic panel analysis suggest positive and statistically significant impact of expenditure decentralisation and …

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Determinants of corruption pressures on local government in the E.U.

Slijepčević, Sunčana; Rajh, Edo; Budak, Jelena - In: Economic research 33 (2020) 1,3, pp. 3492-3508

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Political budget cycles in the European Union and the impact of political pressures : a dynamic panel regression analysis

Efthyvoulou, Georgios - 2010

This paper investigates the presence of political budget cycles (PBCs) in the European Union using a data set encompassing all 27 current member states over the period 1997-2008, and analyzes what may explain their variability across countries and over time. Conditioning on partisan...

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The role of economic uncertainty in rising populism in the EU

Gozgor, Giray - 2020

This paper examines the impact of economic uncertainty shocks on the populist voting behavior in the panel dataset of 24 European Union (EU) countries for the period from 1980 to 2020. In so doing, we focus on the shares of total populism, right-wing populism, and left-wing populism votes as...

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