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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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Fiscal equalization and the tax structure
Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric - 2018
Sub-national governments often finance substantial parts of their budgets via taxes on capital or other mobile factors - despite having access to alternative, less distortionary, revenue sources. This paper develops three hypotheses to explain this pattern and tests them in a natural experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929809
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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2019
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Economic theory delivers … on the ideal institutional setting of federalism in Switzerland. According to our findings, decentralization actually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125277
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"Kosten der Kleinheit" und die Föderalismusdebatte in der Schweiz
Kellermann, Kersten (contributor) - 2007
This paper discusses the smallness of subsidiary jurisdictions as a third dimension of centrality, besides vertical centrality and fragmentation (horizontal centrality). A panel analysis concerning all 26 Swiss cantons (from 1990 to 2003) shows that public expenditure per-capita increases with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003663783
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Electoral externalities in federations : evidence from German opinion polls
Frei, Xenia; Langer, Sebastian; Lehmann, Robert; … - 2017 - This version: February 20, 2017
Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting dynamics and vice versa (electoral externalities). We quantify the extent of simultaneous electoral externalities between two layers of government. We apply vector autoregressions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615805
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Fiscal federalism and economic performance : new evidence from Switzerland
Burret, Heiko Tobias; Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, … - 2021
The link between federalism and economic performance is still ambiguous. Aiming at clarification, we improve on a … widespread shortcoming by measuring federalism not just by one variable but by various institutions that constitute it. To this … end, Switzerland provides for a laboratory as its 26 cantons share a common framework, while the extent of federalism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426943
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Provision of public goods in a federalist country: Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities (administration, public safety, education, culture and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315507
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Raising taxes through equalization
Smart, Michael (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003495798
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Does fiscal federalism promote regional inequality? : an empirical analysis of the OECD, 1980 - 2005
Sorens, Jason - In: Regional studies 48 (2014) 2, pp. 239-253
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419482
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Die föderale Ordnung in Deutschland : Motor oder Bremse des wirtschaftlichen Wachstums?
Berthold, Norbert; Drews, Stefan; Thode, Eric - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010495311