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tenative, since there remain questions about transparency and soft budget constraints (Plekhanov 2006). We show federalism at … allocations and spending requirements. Supportive of the conclusion in Chebankova (2008), the term adaptive federalism applies to …
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The paper considers the influence of federal government expenditures and transfers on interregional convergence in gross regional product (GRP) per capita and wages in Russia over 2005-2011. Such an influence is not found. The federal government's policy was reactive and was not focused on...
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Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob eine Fusion der Länder Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein zu einem Bundesland ökonomisch von Vorteil ist. Es wird gezeigt, dass generell die Größe von Ländern nicht positiv mit dem Pro-Kopf-Einkommen oder dem wirtschaftlichen Wachstum korreliert....
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In Western economies, the concrete design of fiscal federalism is determined by the status the federation grants to … efficiency gains offered by fiscal federalism, the vertical co-ordination of revenue and expenditure responsibilities between the …
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Regional fiscal equalization in Germany aims to reduce fiscal disparities by allocating financial resources to less promising regions in order to support the supply of public goods. This paper aims to analyse secondary economic effects of regional fiscal equalization on several economic in- and...
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This paper examines the role of political alignment and the electoral business cycle on municipality revenues in Greece for the period 2003-2010. A panel dataset combining local and national elections with local budgets is used to run a fixed-effects econometric model. The findings suggest that...
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enhanced transfers and re-centralisation of the financing of spending in some key categories such as education and health …, inequalities, be it in terms of income, wealth or education, are actually most striking along the rural-urban dimension. The rural …
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In Western economies, the concrete design of fiscal federalism is determined by the status the federation grants to … efficiency gains offered by fiscal federalism, the vertical co-ordination of revenue and expenditure responsibilities between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433689
Fiscal equalisation and regional development policies have often been perceived as separate policy fields. As a result, little is known about their potential interactions and implications for economic growth and welfare. This working paper reviews the two policies, explores the potential for...
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