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Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? - evidence from Germany
Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2020
Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291881
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Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? : evidence from Germany
Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2022 - This version: 22nd August 2022
Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013399870
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Reforming Fiscal Federal Relations in Germany
Kitterer, Wolfgang - 2007
The reform of fiscal federalism in Germany enacted in 2006 has focussed on separating the joint legislation process … between the federal government and the States (Laender). The German commission on the reform of federalism is now disputing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729817
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Fiscal equalization and the tax structure
Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric - 2018
this pattern and tests them in a natural experiment from Germany. The first hypothesis is that fiscal redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929809
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Stellungsnahme zur Anhörung der Bundesstaatskommission
Homburg, Stefan - 2005
The paper is an expert opinion, prepared for a hearing of Germany’s Federal Commission I (Bundesstaatskommission I …), which proposed constitutional changes regarding fiscal federalism and taxes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011648327
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Does Expenditure Composition Influence the Debt Level? Evidence from German Federal States
Stegarescu, Dan - 2016
Despite strongly equalized per capita revenue and similar budgetary institutions, fiscal performance is increasingly diverging across German federal states. Given that state and local governments are endowed with expenditure autonomy, this paper investigates whether the composition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988641
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Do Municipal Mergers Reduce Costs? Evidence from a German Federal State
Blesse, Sebastian - 2016
We study the fiscal consequences of municipal mergers by making use of a largescale merger reform in the German federal state of Brandenburg. This reform, which was implemented from 2001 to 2003, led to a substantial reduction in the number of municipalities. Individual mergers were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991992
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Modeling Fiscal Sustainability in Dynamic Macro-Panels with Heterogeneous Effects : Evidence from German Federal States
Feld, Lars P. - 2018
In this paper, we extend Henning Bohn's (2008) fiscal sustainability test by allowing for slope heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence (CD). In particular, our econometric approach is the first that allows fiscal reaction functions (FRF) to capture unobserved heterogeneous effects from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917513
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Do Municipal Mergers Reduce Costs? Evidence from a German Federal State
Blesse, Sebastian - 2014
The extant empirical evidence on the fiscal consequences of municipal mergers is ambiguous. We therefore revisit this question by making use of a merger reform in the German federal state of Brandenburg in 2003. In addition to identifying the causal effects of mergers on municipal expenditures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061822
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Do Party Ties Increase Transfer Receipts in Cooperative Federalism? - Evidence from Germany
Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Koehler, Ekkehard A. - 2021
Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315289