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Electoral cycles in public expenditures : evidence from Czech local governments

Stastna, Lenka - 2015

The paper analyzes local political cycle in Czech municipalities over the period between 1997 and 2013. We apply the system and the difference GMM estimators to detect electoral manipulation in current and capital expenditures in electoral and pre-electoral years. Primarily, we estimate the...

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How do municipalities react to a revenue shock?

Mense, Andreas; Wech, Daniela; Wrede, Matthias - 2019 - Preliminary draft

We study the fiscal reaction of German municipalities to a revenue shock that stems from the adjustment of population counts in the 1987 and 2011 censuses. We focus on the choice of instruments municipalities use in order to offset the shock, namely municipal taxes, debt, and spending. Simple...

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Capitalization of local taxes and expenditures : the case of Bavarian municipalities

Hardt, David; Lehmann, Isabella Ruth; Wirth, Benjamin - 2016

This paper examines capitalization effects of fiscal variables such as taxes and public expenditure into land prices in Bavaria. Based on panel data analyses on municipality level we discuss the potential existence of capitalization as well as the changes over time possibly related to supply...

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Fiskalna održivost lokalne samouprave na primjeru grada Kutine

Pavličić, Radmila - In: Ekonomija : časopis za ekonomsku teoriju i politiku 22 (2016) 2, pp. 335-363

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Spatial concentration of local government expenditure in the Czech Republic

Sedmihradská, Lucie; Tuncer, Guner; Sagdic, Ersin Nail - In: The impact of globalization on international finance …, (pp. 237-244). 2018

The aim of this paper is to analyze the spatial concentration of local government expenditure in the Czech Republic. Expenditure of the regions, municipalities, and voluntary municipal associations in 2003 and 2015 is analyzed using descriptive statistic, cartographic visualization, and...

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Takings, fiscal illusion, and the median voter : comment

Klerman, Daniel - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 173 (2017) 1, pp. 71-76

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Elections and externalities of health expenditures : spatial patterns and opportunism in the local budget allocation

Ferreira, Jorge Leandro Delconte; Alves, Alexandre; … - 2016

In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that policy makers' choices concerning health spent at the local level are spatially correlated and electorally oriented. We check the influence of a set of demographic, electoral and economic determinants of public health activity. We performed a spatial...

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Quality of local public good provision and rlectoral support

Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019

Do voters value the quality of local public goods, such as whether pavements are clean, whether benches in the park need repair, or whether local roads are in good shape? Using almost 150,000 geo-located complaints that were posted on the complaint-platform FixMyStreet.com between 2007 and 2011,...

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Regional development and decentralization : two options to overcome lack of funding : 53rd ERSA Congress : Regional integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the world economy : 2...

Jurlina Alibegović, Dubravka; Slijepčević, Sunčana; … - 2013

Decentralization can be generally described as a process in which selected functions are assigned to sub-national units …. The literature identifies number of positive consequences of decentralization which all lead to better satisfaction of … citizens? needs for public services. Although decentralization process in Croatia started more than 10 years ago, it still has …

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"Urbanization and decentralization : the changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services" : paper for 54th European regional Science Association Con...

Braun, Joachim von - 2014

"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services … urbanization and decentralization. Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable … them. This gives an important potential role to decentralization of government, and decentralization of services in …

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