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Federal monetary policy
Hefeker, Carsten - 2001
What is the optimal institutional structure for an independent central bank? The paper shows when it will be optimal for a country to have a central bank to be organized according to federal, purely national or a combination of both aspects. The analysis is then extended to a supranational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398004
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On federalism and government size : the Leviathan Hypothesis after three decades
Da Empoli, Domenico - In: Journal of public finance and public choice : JPFPC 31 (2013) 1/3, pp. 157-162
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304203
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Environmental federalism : a survey of the empirical literature
Millimet, Daniel L. - 2013
Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the "optimal" level of government at which to delegate environmental … literatures. By doing so, the goal is to limit the scope of the debate over environmental federalism moving forward, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228784
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Public procurement in the presence of capital taxation
Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 1999
The paper considers governments' public procurement decision as a way of influencing industry structure. In a federation in which capital is mobile and capital taxation is harmonized, a home bias in public procurement can potentially be explained as an effort to increase the capital intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443221
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The structure of political power and redistribution in economies with multiple governments
Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl A.; Kochi, Ikuho; Gutiérrez … - In: Estudios económicos 30 (2015) 2, pp. 269-303
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Moral federalism : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004
Janeba, Eckhard - 2004
paper compares three regimes (centralization, decentralization and federalism) in an economy where individuals choose their … move from decentralization to federalism, called moral federalism, is welfare improving behind the veil of ignorance if and … only if centralization dominates decentralization, and (ii) for the group that favors a restrictive policy moral federalism …
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War with outsiders makes peace inside
Münster, Johannes; Staal, Klaas - 2005
In many situations there is a potential for conflict both within and between groups. Examples include wars and civil wars and distributional conflict in multitiered organizations like federal states or big companies. This paper models such situations with a logistic technology of conflict. If...
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Environmental tax reform in a federation with rent-induced migration
Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - 2015
We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
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Campaign contributions and local public goods in a federation
Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl A. - In: Estudios económicos 33 (2018) 2, pp. 283-311
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Experimentation in federal systems
Callander, Steven; Harstad, Bård - 2015
minimizing informational spillovers. To address this failure, we introduce a dynamic form of federalism in which the central …
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