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This paper exploits a recent devolution of tax setting powers in the German federation to study the effects of fiscal equalization on subnational governments' tax policy. Based on an analysis of the system of fiscal equalization transfers, we argue that the redistribution of revenues provides...
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Italian reform of the local personal income tax (PIT), which was flat before the intervention, that allows mayors to introduce … and we find that the reform consistently amplifies political budget cycle of local PIT. In terms of mechanism …
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examine whether political alignment and political ideology play a role in determining how much highway funding per capita a …
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Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers. We study how parliamentary representation of municipalities on the federal level influences the allocation of federal transfers to municipal governments under this type of...
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Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers. We study how parliamentary representation of municipalities on the federal level influences the allocation of federal transfers to municipal governments under this type of...
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This paper exploits a recent devolution of tax setting powers in the German federation to study the effects of fiscal equalization on subnational governments’ tax policy. Based on an analysis of the system of fiscal equalization transfers, we argue that the redistribution of revenues provides...
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in Germany. The results suggest that attempts of state level governments to extract fiscal resources from the local …
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this pattern and tests them in a natural experiment from Germany. The first hypothesis is that fiscal redistribution …
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