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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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-quality education, affordable housing, reasonable public transportation and improved urban planning in every municipality to reduce …
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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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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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The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades … for International Student Assessment (PISA) referred to 22 countries, we test whether there exists an impact of fiscal and … Mathematics is more sensible to these exogenous variations than in Sciences and reading skills. -- school outcomes ; PISA ; fiscal …
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The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades … for International Student Assessment (PISA) referred to 22 countries, we test whether there exists an impact of fiscal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103478