Objectives: To contribute to the policy discussion of equity and health financing in Chile by evaluating the improvement in the capitation formula for paying PHC providers by using selected diagnoses. The socio-economic status of the municipalities and the urban/rural location of providers are...

Die Verhandlungen zwischen Bund und Ländern zur Neugestaltung des Finanzausgleichs in Deutschland sind festgefahren. Vor allem die Vorstellungen zur Zukunft des Umsatzsteuerausgleichs gehen diametral auseinander, hier scheint keine Einigung absehbar. Diese Debatte wurde vor drei Jahren in der...

The paper examines the progress being made in local finance reforms and indicates pathways to advance those reforms. A summary of the effects of decentralization is given as a contextual background for the discussion of local finance reforms. The inefficient tax assignment has constrained the...

The paper discusses some strategies by which the Member States of the EU are identified as Net Contributors or as Net Beneficiaries. The main strategies are the conception of the "operational" budgetary balances and the conception of the "general" budgetary balances. A comparison of these...

Recent literature on optimal nonlinear taxation has shown that in models with a single level of government public provision of private goods can help redistribution by mitigating self-selection constraints. The aim of the present paper is to extend the analysis to a fiscal federalism setting...

When investigating the effects of federal grants on the behavior of lower-level governments, it is hard to defend the handling of grants as an exogenous factor affecting local governments; federal governments often set grants based on characteristics and performance of local governments. In this...

A couple of months before the Swedish election in 1998, the incumbent government distributed 2.3 billion SEK to 42 out of 115 applying municipalities. This was the first wave of a four-year long grant program intended to support local investment programs aimed at an ecological sustainable...