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This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
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Private innovative activities receive public innovation support from different political levels. Few studies have empirically evaluated the influence of political systems on the reception of public innovation support and no other studies have evaluated innovation support across Europe with CIS...
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minimizing informational spillovers. To address this failure, we introduce a dynamic form of federalism in which the central …
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This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically … setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …
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. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
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. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
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. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
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. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
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This paper discusses the role of the state governments in the Brazilian federative system in the post-1988 Federal Constitution period, which is much characterized by cooperative and competitive mechanisms between the Union and the states and among the states themselves. The state governments...
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