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Decentralized Emission Standards with Tax Competition

Petchey, Jeffrey D. - 2010

We consider a game between jurisdictions within a national economy. Capital migrates between jurisdictions to satisfy an equal return condition. The total supply of capital to the economy is a non-decreasing function of the national return. This allows us to cater for the case where capital has...

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Rethinking the Political Economy of Decentralization : How Elections and Parties Shape the Provision of Local Public Goods

Ponce-Rodriguez, Raul - 2012

Decentralization is among the most important global trends of the new century, yet there is still no consensus on how … which decentralization will improve the delivery of public goods. We begin by incorporating insights from political science … and economics into a rigorous and formal extension of the “decentralization theorem”. Our extension assumes inter …

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Centralized versus Decentralized Provision of Local Public Goods : A Political Economy Analysis

Besley, Timothy - 1999

of centralization stressed in the existing literature disappear, suggesting that the case for decentralization must be … driven by political economy considerations. Our political economy analysis assumes that under decentralization public goods …

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Intragovernment procurement of local public good : a theory of decentralization in nondemocratic government

Bai, Chong-En; Pan, Yu; Wang, Yijiang - 1998

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Local agency costs of political centralization

Myerson, Roger B. - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 16 (2021) 2, pp. 425-448

We analyze a model of moral hazard in local public services which could be efficiently managed by officials under local democratic accountability, but not by officials who are appointed by the ruler of a centralized autocracy. The ruler might prefer to retain an official who diverted resources...

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Local environmental policy in a federal system: an overview

Segerson, Kathleen - In: Agricultural and resource economics review : ARER 49 (2020) 2, pp. 196-208

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Expenditure Competition

Gordon, Roger H. - 2001

response. In this paper, we explore the effect that competition for residents induced by fiscal decentralization has on 'waste … an additional advantage of fiscal decentralization …

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Decentralization with porous borders : public production in a federation with tax competition and spillovers

Armbruster, Stephanie; Hintermann, Beat - In: International tax and public finance 27 (2020) 3, pp. 606-642

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The welfare costs of Tiebout sorting with true public goods

Kuhlmey, Florian; Hintermann, Beat - In: International tax and public finance 26 (2019) 5, pp. 1166-1210

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Political institutions and federalism : a "strong" decentralization theorem

Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl A.; Hankla, Charles R.; … - 2017

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