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Power to the people? The impact of decentralization on governance
Dreher, Axel - 2006
The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five … measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated …. Results for a panel of about 70 countries over the period 1984-2001 are also presented. The results show that decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285903
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"Kosten der Kleinheit" und die Föderalismusdebatte in der Schweiz
Kellermann, Kersten (contributor) - 2007
This paper discusses the smallness of subsidiary jurisdictions as a third dimension of centrality, besides vertical centrality and fragmentation (horizontal centrality). A panel analysis concerning all 26 Swiss cantons (from 1990 to 2003) shows that public expenditure per-capita increases with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003663783
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Power to the people? : The impact of decentralization on governance
Dreher, Axel - 2006
The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five … measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated …. Results for a panel of about 70 countries over the period 1984-2001 are also presented. The results show that decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003289307
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The Reform of Equalization Payments
Usher, Dan - 2007
A reasonable and fair interpretation of the mandate for equalization payments in Section 36(2) of the Canadian Constitution differs from the present equalization formula in these respects: Transfers to the poorer provinces would be financed by transfers from the richer provinces rather than from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940735
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Finanzströme im deutschen Bundesstaat: Vertikale und horizontale Aspekte der Gewährleistung angemessener Finanzausstattungen der öffentlichen Haushalte von Bund, Ländern und Gemein...
Heinemann, André W. - In: ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 01, pp. 15-20
André W. Heinemann, Universität Bremen, sieht die Chance, die bundesstaatliche Finanzverteilungsarchitektur durch den Abbau heute nicht mehr begründbarer Finanzströme zu entrümpeln, durch die Bündelung gleichgerichteter Finanzströme zu vereinfachen und durch Reduzierung des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011693590
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Reform der Finanzbeziehungen zwischen Bund und Ländern: Fairer Kompromiss oder Setzen neuer Fehlanreize?
Sitzmann, Edith; Korioth, Stefan; Lenk, Thomas; Glinka, … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 69 (2016) 24, pp. 3-23
Am 14. Oktober 2016 einigten sich die Regierungschefs von Bund und Ländern nach langen Verhandlungen auf eine Neuregelung der föderalen Finanzbeziehungen ab 2020. Anstelle des Länderfinanzausgleichs in seiner jetzigen Form tritt ein neues Umverteilungssystem. Was bedeutet die Vereinbarung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694078
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Kosten der Kleinheit und die Föderalismusdebatte in der Schweiz
Kellermann, Kersten - 2007
This paper discusses the smallness of subsidiary jurisdictions as a third dimension of centrality, besides vertical centrality and fragmentation (horizontal centrality). A panel analysis concerning all 26 Swiss cantons (from 1990 to 2003) shows that public expenditure per-capita increases with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281961
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How to tame two Leviathans? : revisiting the effect of direct democracy on local public expenditure
Galletta, Sergio; Jametti, Mario - 2012
We explore how the vertical structure of direct democracy in a federal context affects expenditure decisions of sub-central governments. In so doing we revisit previous research on the effect of direct democratic institution on public policies. Particularly, the effect of upper-level (state)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665388
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Regional investment and individual redistribution in a federation
Kessing, Sebastian; Schneider, Benny - 2014
We study the strategic incentives of regional governments to allocate their budget to public investment and to public consumption expenditures against the background of an incentive-compatible redistribution policy set by the central government. Regional investment changes the productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429124
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Federal Refrom II in Germany
Heinz, Dominic - 2010
Recently Germany experienced yet another federal reform shortly after a previous modification to the German federal system. This paper explains agenda setting, negotiations and ratification of this recent federal reform. With regards to the case of the most recent federal reform in Germany the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138572