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Does the Fiscal Decentralization Promote Public Safety? Evidence from United States

Ligthart, Jenny - 2013

This paper empirically investigates the effect of fiscal decentralization on public safety, which is widely taken as an … of the decentralization effect. In a decentralized setting, the fiscal competition between jurisdictions motivates local … 2009, we find the fiscal decentralization generally lowers the crime rate, but the effect is smaller for mobile crime than …

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Interactions between state and federal climate change policies

Goulder, Lawrence H.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2010

Federal action addressing climate change is likely to emerge either through new legislation or via the U.S. EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. The prospect of federal action raises important questions regarding the interconnections between federal efforts and state-level climate policy...

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Trial and error? : Reelection concerns and policy experimentation during the US welfare reform

Bernecker, Andreas; Boyer, Pierre C.; Gathmann, Christina - 2015

We study the political economy of policy innovations during the U.S. welfare reform in 1996. Specifically, we investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a political agency model, our empirical results suggest that...

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Incentives and influence activities in the public sector : the trade-off in performance budgeting and conditional grants

Bischoff, Ivo; Blaeschke, Frédéric - 2013 - This version: March 15, 2013

Performance budgeting schemes in the public sector have to operate with imperfect performance measures. We argue that these imperfections generate incentives for the potential recipients of performance-based funds to use up resources in socially wasteful influence activities. We develop a...

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What drives small municipalities to cooperate? : evidence from Hessian municipalities

Blaeschke, Frédéric - 2014 - This version: February 20, 2014 (preliminary)

This contribution studies the determinants of intermunicipal cooperation for small Hessian municipalities. Existing contributions have highlighted the role of cooperation demand factors, for example fiscal stress or demographic factors, on the one hand, and transaction cost issues on the other....

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Federal Preemption and Competition in the Post 1866 United States Telegraph Market

Honsowetz, Aaron - 2018

The United States federal government preempted anti-competitive state and municipal telegraph regulations when the 1866 Post Roads Act was enacted. The act granted a de facto national franchise to build and operate a telegraph system anywhere in the United States to any telegraph company...

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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation During the U.S. Welfare Reform

Bernecker, Andreas - 2015

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An Empirical Analysis of COVID-19 Response : Comparison of US with the G7

Barari, Mahua; Kundu, Srikanta; Mitra, Saibal - 2021

We compare US policy response to COVID-19 with its G7 counterparts between March and September 2020. The G7 countries, while economically and ideologically aligned, have instituted vastly different policies to mitigate the spread of the disease with varying degrees of compliance. To quantify the...

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U.S. and Canadian Federalism : Implications for International Trade Regulation

Bowman, Gregory W. - 2014

Federalism and international trade regulation are popular topics in the legal literature, but the intersection of these two topics remains under-examined. This article explores this important intersection by engaging in a comparative analysis of U.S. and Canadian federalism, and by considering...

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Developing a Comprehensive Approach to Climate Change Policy in the United States : Integrating Levels of Government and Economic Sectors

Dernbach, John C.; Peterson, Thomas D.; McKinstry, Robert B. - 2015

The United State Supreme Court's holding in Massachusetts v. EPA that greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act makes it virtually certain that federal climate change legislation will be accomplished by amending that Act. This Article explains and justifies an approach to...

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