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Should I stay or should I go? A note on employment protection, domestic anchorage, and FDI

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Montagna, Catia - 2003

This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment protection indices. We find that, while an ?unfavourable?...

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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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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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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...

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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 …

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Mehr zu den politischen Segnungen von Föderalismus

Schneider, Andrea; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2009

The political blessings of federalism are the core of our discussion. These benefits are operationalized as the … the population size of the nation: Next, the question is addressed how the gains from federalism react to variations in … the number of regions: The complementary question what happens to the gains of federalism when increasing the number of …

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Federalism, Freedom of Movement, and Fiscal Equalization

Traub, Stefan - 2003

In this paper, we take up the question why a group of sovereign countries is willing to form a federation even if residents of the high-income region suspect potential immigrants to be net beneficiaries of the tax and transfer system. We argue that income uncertainty alone cannot satisfactorily...

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Educational Federalism and the Quality Effects of Tuition Fees

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2007

This paper investigates how the abolishment of a ban on tuition fees affects the quality of higher education with centralized and decentralized decision making. It is shown that tuition fees fully crowd public funds under centralization and quality of university education does not improve....

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Public procurement in the presence of capital taxation

Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 1999

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Educational federalism and the quality effects of tuition fees

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates how the abolishment of a ban on tuition fees affects the quality of higher education with centralized and decentralized decision making. It is shown that a marginal introduction of tuition fees fully crowds out public funds under centralization, whereas educational...

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