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resource equalization scheme and rained down on the municipalities of the canton of Zurich. This quasi-experimental setup and …
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Governments design taxation schemes to capture resource rent. However, they usually propose contracts with limited duration and possess less information on the resources than the extractive firms do. This paper investigates how information asymmetry on costs and an inability to commit to...
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The paper analyses the European Union sub-national governments' tax revenue structures and their dynamic during the last decades. Tax composition obtained a considerable interest during the recent years, particularly after the recent global financial and economic crisis. In many European Union...
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We consider a model where local and national governments both tax income and use the revenue to invest in both productive and consumptive public goods. Local governments will overprovide the consumptive public good if the local income tax is (partially) deductible. However, without full...
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Despite the extensive international experience with the assignments of revenue sources to different levels of government, the public finance literature still lacks a general theory of revenue assignments. Two sets of arguments have been separately developed in the literature to explain and guide...
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The marginal cost of public funds measures the welfare loss a society incurs in raising an additional dollar of tax revenue. Tax increases distort economic decisions and erode tax bases because of tax avoidance and tax evasion by taxpayers. This Commentary uses econometric estimates of the...
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these effects is one of the key reasons for ongoing land consumption on the side of the municipalities. Some previous case … studies however suggested that these effects might be not large enough especially in rural municipalities and would thus make … this effect between urban and rural municipalities. The largest effects are generated by the BIC area in the large cities …
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resource equalization scheme and rained down on the municipalities of the canton of Zurich. This quasi-experimental setup and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847367
Governments design taxation schemes to capture resource rent. However, they usually propose contracts with limited duration and possess less information on the resources than the extractive firms do. This paper investigates how information asymmetry on costs and an inability to commit to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753327
A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...
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