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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018
setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942832
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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2019
on the ideal institutional setting of federalism in Switzerland. According to our findings, decentralization actually … the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation, since the inequality decreasing effect of fiscal … decentralization is counteracted by the interaction with jurisdictional fragmentation. Interestingly, it is not redistribution via …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125277
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Income redistribution in an economic union : does asymmetric information legitimize centralization?
Kolmar, Martin - 2002
optimum. Decentralization of social policies is compatible with efficiency even when source-based taxes have to be used if … ; decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009491059
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Income redistribution in an economic union : does asymmetric information legitimize centralization?
Kolmar, Martin - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436188
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Towards a European constitution : fiscal federalism and the allocation of economic competences
Stehn, Jürgen - 2002
The paper analyzes one important aspect of the constitutional debate: the allocation of econornie competences between the EU and the mernber states. It takes the theory of fiscal federalism as a starting point for an optimal allocation of economic competences. The main message of the theory is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490654
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What Happens to Interregional Redistribution as Decentralisation Goes on? Evidence from the Italian NHS
Ferrario, Caterina - 2009
In this paper we explore how political pressures for an increased decentralisation of revenue and expenditure competencies to sub-national governments may affect the degree of interregional redistribution accomplished by the public sector. We do this by focusing on a specific case, that of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155082
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Fiscal Decentralization and Public R&D Policy : A Country Panel Analysis
Colombo, Daniel Gama e - 2019
This paper examines the impact of fiscal decentralization on both public investment in innovation (measured as the … model predicts that decentralization leads to a lower level of public spending on innovation, and to a lower share of basic … find evidence that expenditure decentralization leads to lower intensity of basic research within public R&D, and that both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871905
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Fiscal Decentralization and Public R&D Policy : A Country Paen Analysis
Colombo, Daniel Gama e - 2019
This paper examines the impact of fiscal decentralization on both public investment in innovation (measured as the … model predicts that decentralization leads to a lower level of public spending on innovation, and to a lower share of basic … find evidence that expenditure decentralization leads to lower intensity of basic research within public R&D, and that both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862181
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Towards fully decentralized environmental regulation
Gudmundsson, Jens; Hougaard, Jens Leth; Ansink, Erik - 2024
We take a decentralized approach to regulating environmental pollution in settings where each agent's pollution possibly affects all others. There is no central agency to enforce pollution abatement or coordinate monetary transfers. Moreover, agents possess private information, which precludes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534747
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What Happens to Interregional Redistribution as Decentralisation Goes On? Evidence from the Italian NHS
Ferrario, Caterina; Zanardi, Alberto - 2012
In this paper we explore how political pressures for an increased decentralisation of revenue and expenditure competencies to sub-national governments may affect the degree of interregional redistribution accomplished by the public sector. We do this by focusing on a specific case, that of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014041338