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Local public finances and municipal reform in Finland
André, Christophe; García, Clara - 2014
Finnish municipalities enjoy ample fiscal autonomy and provide or arrange the provision of a large share of public services. In recent years, their spending and debt has been increasing steadily, especially because of population ageing and increases in the cost of health care and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375402
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How local are local governments? : heterogeneous effects of intergovernmental grants
Nilsson, Heléne L. - 2009
specific type of recipients. The results from these studies are mixed and make clear that knowledge about grants effects is to … this date still insufficient. This paper contributes by estimating causal effects on local expenditures and income tax …-in-difference ; heterogeneous treatment effects ; flypaper effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904255
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From urban core to wealthy towns : nonschool fiscal disparities across Connecticut municipalities
Zhao, Bo - 2015 - This version: August 2015
Using a cost-capacity gap framework, this paper is the first study to quantify nonschool fiscal disparities across Connecticut municipalities. In the absence of a Uniform Chart of Accounts for municipalities, the paper uses a newly assembled dataset of multi-year local financial records,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401244
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The flypaper effect in Germany : an East-West comparison
Korzhenevych, Artem; Langer, Sebastian - 2016
We investigate the effect of general-purpose transfers on different expenditure categories and tax rates in the municipalities of Saxony (eastern Germany) and North Rhine-Westphalia (western Germany). Findings from the panel data analysis suggest the existence of the "flypaper effect" -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011562932
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Revenue Decentralization, the Local Income Tax Deduction, and the Provision of Public Goods
Hatfield, John William - 2013
We consider a model where local and national governments both tax income and use the revenue to invest in both productive and consumptive public goods. Local governments will overprovide the consumptive public good if the local income tax is (partially) deductible. However, without full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089328
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The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks
Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021
We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany’s fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514567
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The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks
Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021
We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518088
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Equalization transfers and the pattern of municipal spending : an investigation of the flypaper effect in Germany
Langer, Sebastian; Korzhenevych, Artem - 2018
. Thus, for the identification of causal effects, two exogenous adjustments in the transfer allocation formula are used as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011833912
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Case study of central and local government finance in Japan
Bessho, Shun-ichiro - 2016
This paper aims to provide an overview of the basics of Japan's local public administration and finance system and to analyze how Japan's municipalities restore their fiscal balance after a fiscal shock. In Japan, local governments play a major role in redistribution. Combined with regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557018
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Lost in America : evidence on local sales taxes from national panel data
Agrawal, David - 2014 - This Version: June 2014
This paper studies comprehensive national panel data of local option sales taxes at the monthly frequency. I calculate state-by-month population weighted averages of local sales tax rates. I document ten stylized facts concerning the time series patterns and spatial dynamics of local sales...
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