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The intricacy of adapting to climate change : flood protection as a local public goods game
Bondarev, Anton; Hintermann, Beat; Krysiak, Frank C.; … - 2017
We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk, regional governments choose among adaptation measures that vary with respect to their costs, the level of protection they offer, and the presence and nature of spillovers to...
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Centralized fiscal spending by supranational unions
Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin - 2013 - This version: June 28, 2013
We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We explore the link between the allocation and nations ́contributions that occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and...
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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...
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Alternating or compensating? : an experiment on the repeated sequential best shot game
Bruttel, Lisa; Güth, Werner - 2013
In the two-person sequential best shot game, first player 1 contributes to a public good and then player 2 is informed about this choice before contributing. The payoff from the public good is the same for both players and depends only on the maximal contribution. Efficient voluntary cooperation...
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Cooperation with lists
Hillenbrand, Adrian - 2018
Group tasks are often organized by a list: group members state their willingness to contribute by entering their names on a publicly visible, empty list. Alternatively, one could organize the group task by starting with a full list: every group member is already entered on the list and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779277
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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/10011629989
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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/10012112066
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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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Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions
Simon, Jenny - 2013
We study the efficiency of centralized fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary. In this setting, a country's outside option during budget negotiations is to withdraw its contribution to the centralized budget and consume its full income. This implies a crucial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089143
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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 …
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