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Tax competition and the choice of tax structure in a majority voting model
Borck, Rainald - 2003
This note studies the choice of tax structure in a majority voting model with tax competition. Regions may tax mobile capital or immobile labor. Individuals differ with respect to their relative endowments of labor and capital. Even though a lump sum tax is available, the equilibrium capital tax...
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Contractual federalism and strategy-proof coordination
Loeper, Antoine - 2008
This paper takes a mechanism design approach to federalism and assumes that local preferences are the private … information of local jurisdictions. Contractual federalism is defined as a strategy-proof contract among the members of the …-proof mechanisms, but they are socially worse than non cooperative decentralization. Federal mechanisms which are neutral and robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860044
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Electoral competition as a determinant of fiscal decentralization
Jametti, Mario; Joanis, Marcelin - 2011
decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; vertical interactions ; partial decentralization ; elections …Fiscal decentralization is high on the agenda in policy fora. This paper empirically investigates the underlying causes … of fiscal decentralization, based on the predictions of a simple political economy model. We argue that the likeliness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301206
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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
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Dynamic tax externalities and the U.S. fiscal transformation in the 1930s
Niepelt, Dirk - 2018
We propose a theory of tax centralization in politico-economic equilibrium. Taxation has dynamic general equilibrium implications which are rationally internalized at the federal, but not at the regional level. The political support for taxation therefore differs across levels of government....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810615
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The Role of Direct Democracy and Federalism in Local Power
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
Alienation to politics weakens political competition and can undermine the acceptance and legitimacy of democracy as a political system. Governance and representation problems at the local level cause part of citizens' lack of power and political alienation. Citizens have local power if they can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068720
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The economic approach to political borders
Spolaore, Enrico - 2022
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473678
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The Economic Approach to Political Borders
Spolaore, Enrico - 2022
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290075
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Fiscal Decentralization and Centralization Under a Majority Rule : A Normative Analysis
Akai, Nobuo; Mikami, Kazuhiko - 2009
In his seminal work on fiscal federalism, Oates (1972) addressed the so-called Decentralization Theorem, which states …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058981