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The distinct characteristic in James Buchanan’s thinking about federalism in contrast to the traditional theory of … fiscal federalism is his view about fiscal competition. In this paper, it is demonstrated that this thinking went through … federalism literature and concerned with equity and efficiency issues. In the Leviathan approach starting from the midseventies …
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What are the macroeconomic effects of tax adjustments in response to large public debt shocks in highly integrated economies? The answer from standard closed-economy models is deceptive, because they underestimate the elasticity of capital tax revenues and ignore crosscountry spillovers of tax...
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Europe's debt crisis casts doubt on the effectiveness of fiscal austerity in highly-integrated economies. Closed-economy models overestimate its effectiveness, because they underestimate tax-base elasticities and ignore cross-country tax externalities. In contrast, we study tax responses to debt...
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The existing theoretical literature on fiscal competition has to a large extent ignored the role of government debt as a determinant of taxes and productive public spending. We develop a simple model of fiscal competition with government borrowing. If a default on government debt is no option,...
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