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A global map of amenities : public goods, ethnic divisions and decentralization
Seidel, André - 2020 - This version: 20.02.2020
I analyze the effects of ethnic divisions on the provision of public goods. Using OpenStreetMap data, I construct a new global dataset of locations of public amenities, such as schools, hospital and libraries. I allow for the possibility that the data may be systematically incomplete using two...
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Federative relations and Russia spatial problem
Vardomskij, Leonid Borisovič - 2014
conditions and interests. Specificity of modern Russian federalism lies in the history of the formation and organization of its … territories . Introduction of federalism in a state management practices in Russia in early 1990s. occurred in the wave of … the regions intergovernmental transfers became the main instrument of the federal government. Huge volume redistribution …
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Suburban development of St Petersburg : comparison of 2 subjects of Federation long-term visions
Limonov, Leonid Ė. - 2014
The paper is devoted to problems of ensuring balanced and sustainable development of a very specific and important metropolitan region of the Russian Federation - the region of St Petersburg and surrounding it Leningrad Oblast. St.Petersburg (City) and Leningrad Oblast (Region) are both...
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Legal European company forms to realize FOCJ : Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions
Friedrich, Peter - 2010
Legal European Company Forms to Realize Cross Border FOCJ - Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions Peter Friedrich Since several years Bruno Frey, Eichenberger and other authors launched the idea of a FOCJ "Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdiction". In Switzerland and USA school...
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Partisanship and fiscal policy in Federal Unions : evidence from US states
Carlino, Gerald A.; Drautzburg, Thorsten; Inman, Robert P. - 2020
In federal countries, such as the U.S., the fiscal authority consists not of one, but many governments, with state governments accounting for a sizable share of expenditures. We analyze how state partisanship of politicians affects state fiscal policy and quantify the possible macroeconomic...
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Technology beats capital sharing the carbon price burden in federal Europe
Roolfs, Christina; Gaitan Soto, Beatriz; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2021
with a vertical federalism governance structure calibrated to the European Union. Our simulations show that a federal …
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More federal legislators lead to more resources for their constituencies : evidence from exogenous differences in seat allocations
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2019
Electoral district magnitude varies across German electoral constituencies and over legislative periods due to Germany’s electoral system. The number of seats in parliament per constituency is effectively random. This setting permits us to investigate exogenous variations in district magnitude...
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Oligarchy ancient and modern
Grewal, David Singh - In: Capital in Classical Antiquity, (pp. 311-337). 2022
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Mobility and progressive taxation
Roller, Marcus; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2014 - Very preliminary
In fiscally centralised countries with a unique country-wide income tax schedule, it is straightforward to quantify the degree of progressivity. In fiscally decentralised countries with varying local tax schedules, however, this is not the case. In these countries, the effective tax...
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Wages, rents, unemployment, and the quality of life
Wrede, Matthias - 2013 - This version: March 2013
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. The results are compared...
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