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The political competition-economic performance puzzle : evidence from the OECD countries and the Italian regions
Padovano, Fabio (contributor); Ricciuti, Roberto (contributor) - 2008
over 1984-2000 and find support for our predictions. -- Political competition ; growth ; redistribution ; national and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763178
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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis
Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
redistribution and a modest effect of two year led inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544770
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Who do you blame in local finance? : an analysis of municipal financing in Italy
Bordignon, Massimo; Piazza, Santino - 2010
A 1999 reform allowed Italian Mayors to partially substitute a more accountable source of tax revenue (the property tax) with a less transparent one (a surcharge on the personal income tax). Theoretical analysis suggests this should give incompetent Mayors a less costly way to hide themselves,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979382
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Who do you blame in local finance? : an analysis of municipal financing in Italy
Bordignon, Massimo; Grembi, Veronica; Piazza, Santino - 2015
In a political agency model, we study the effect of introducing a less transparent tax tool for the financing of local governments. We show that lower quality politicians would use more the less transparent tax tool to enhance their probability of re-election. This prediction is tested by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775830
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Fiscal decentralization and economic growth in OECD countries : is there a relationship?
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P. - 2009
We study the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 23 OECD countries from 1975 to 2001 … causes lower growth rates, we find that this result is not robust to alternative specifications. We also fail to obtain … is unrelated to economic growth. -- fiscal federalism ; sub-national fiscal autonomy ; tax competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871924
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Political fragmentation and fiscal policy : evidence from German municipalities
Bernard, René - 2017
Baden-Württemberg for the 1994-2014 period, I test the GFH for tax rates, the growth in government debt as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730078
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New evidence on state fiscal multipliers : implications for state policies
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2017
When state and local governments engage in balanced budget changes in taxes and spending, what fiscal multiplier effects do such policies have on creating local jobs? Traditionally, the view has been that possible job-creation effects of such state and local "demand-side" policies are smaller,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011667813
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Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economy
Janský, Petr; Palanský, Miroslav - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016
In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed countries are on average more decentralized than developing countries and that Asia, Europe and North America are among the most fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582864
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Preferences for redistribution in Latin America
Busso, Matias; Ibáñez, Ana María; Messina, Julián; … - 2023
explores which aspects of redistribution are more popular and among which groups. The roles of selfinterest, perceptions of … inequality, values, and the relationship between citizens and the public sphere in shaping attitudes to redistribution are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545253
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Distributional consequences of political representation : conference paper
Maaser, Nicola; Stratmann, Thomas - 2014
We investigate the geographical concentration of representatives and the distribution of fiscal transfers both theoretically and empirically. We develop a model which predicts that funds to an area are positively correlated with the number of representatives residing in that area. Our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489270