This paper uses a simple model of fiscal competition between local jurisdictions to analyse the impact of intergovernmental grants on the composition of public spending. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of ʺfiscal equalisationʺ coincides with a smaller overall...

This study aims at computing effective tax rates on consumption, household income, labour income and capital income for the Turkish economy from the viewpoints of the methods developed by Mendoza et al (1994) and Carey and Rabesona (2002) using national income accounts and tax revenue statistics...