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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942832
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496890
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011884402
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443221
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821280
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Central governance or subsidiarity : a property-rights approach to federalism
Lülfesmann, Christoph - 2001 - Revised: October 2000
The paper reconsiders the theory of fiscal federalism in a framework inspired by property-rights theory. We set up a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538721
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Federative relations and Russia spatial problem
Vardomskij, Leonid Borisovič - 2014
conditions and interests. Specificity of modern Russian federalism lies in the history of the formation and organization of its … territories . Introduction of federalism in a state management practices in Russia in early 1990s. occurred in the wave of … social consequences of divergence space growth, but not the reasons for its cause. Today federal relations are in a certain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499312
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Fiscal federalism, taxation and grants
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2016
traditional, expenditure-related motives for centralization considered in the fiscal federalism literature is present. If central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523762
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Fiscal federalism, taxation and grants
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2016
traditional, expenditure-related motives for centralization considered in the fiscal federalism literature is present. If central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523838