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Public procurement in the presence of capital taxation
Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 1999
The paper considers governments' public procurement decision as a way of influencing industry structure. In a federation in which capital is mobile and capital taxation is harmonized, a home bias in public procurement can potentially be explained as an effort to increase the capital intensity of...
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Environmental tax reform in a federation with rent-induced migration
Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - 2015
We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
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On the determinants of fiscal decentralization : evidence from the EU
Delgado, Francisco J. - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 23 (2021) 56, pp. 206-220
We empirically analyze the determinants of the fiscal decentralization in the European Union. Our approach consists on a quantile regression for the period 2005-2017. The results show the differences in the impact of explanatory variables on the fiscal decentralization by quantiles....
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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically …
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Heterogeneity, vetoes and exit clauses in federal systems
Huysmans, Martijn - 2018
The vast majority of federations lack exit clauses. Existing theoretical explanations of this stylized fact focus on issues of credible commitment, signaling, and the risk of strategic exploitation. However, such accounts are unable to explain the adoption by the European Union (EU) of Article...
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Experimentation in federal systems
Callander, Steven; Harstad, Bård - 2015
minimizing informational spillovers. To address this failure, we introduce a dynamic form of federalism in which the central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862030
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Fiscal Federalism in Crisis: Lessons for Europe from the US
Darvas, Zsolt - 2010
euro area than in the US, and though the US faces serious state-level fiscal crises. A higher level of fiscal federalism …
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Vertical fiscal externalities and the environment
Böhringer, Christoph; Rivers, Nicholas; Yonezawa, Hidemichi - 2016
We show that imposition of a state-level environmental tax in a federation crowds out pre-existing federal taxes. We explain how this vertical fiscal externality can lead unilateral state-level environmental policy to generate a welfare gain in the implementing state, at the expense of other...
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Contractual federalism and strategy-proof coordination
Loeper, Antoine - 2008
This paper takes a mechanism design approach to federalism and assumes that local preferences are the private … information of local jurisdictions. Contractual federalism is defined as a strategy-proof contract among the members of the … coalition manipulations are equivalent to voting rules on uniform policies. -- Federalism ; Asymmetric Information ; Strategy …
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Electoral competition as a determinant of fiscal decentralization
Jametti, Mario; Joanis, Marcelin - 2011
decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; vertical interactions ; partial decentralization ; elections …
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