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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 …
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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 …
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optimum. Decentralization of social policies is compatible with efficiency even when source-based taxes have to be used if … ; decentralization …
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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...
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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
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 …
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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
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...
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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