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Small States, Large Unitary States and Federations

Wrede, Matthias - 2021

Employing a political-economics approach, this paper compares small states and unions when the former fail to internalize cross-border externalities of publicly provided goods. It discusses two types of unions: federations with more than one level of government and unitary states. While unitary...

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On Cooperation in Musgravian Models of Externalities within a Federation

Tulkens, Henry - 2021

evoked of what economics and public finance may have to say on the limits to institutional decentralization, i.e. on the …

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Microeconomic Models of Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions (FOCJs)

Chebotareva, Mariia - 2017

One of the newer suggestions for the design of public economic units refers to Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions (FOCJs), which are instruments to shape cooperation of jurisdictions, e.g. municipalities.The study clarifies important types of FOCJ. It concentrates on FOCJs where the...

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Horizontal Federalism

Erbsen, Allan - 2009

This Article constructs frameworks for analyzing federalism's undertheorized horizontal dimension. Discussions of … federalism generally focus on the hierarchical (or vertical) allocation of power between the national and state governments while … on state citizenship. This Article moves beyond the piecemeal approach by identifying facets of horizontal federalism …

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State Corroding Federalism

Cai, Hongbin; Treisman, Daniel - 2007

Competition among local governments in a decentralized political system is often thought to discipline lazy or corrupt officials, improving public good provision and increasing welfare. Some scholars note possible distortions due to spillovers or a race-to-the-bottom, but suggest that central...

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Was Pandemic Fiscal Relief Effective Fiscal Stimulus? Evidence from Aid to State and Local Governments

Clemens, Jeffrey; Hoxie, Philip G.; Veuger, Stan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use an instrumental-variables estimator reliant on variation in congressional representation to analyze the effects of federal aid to state and local governments across all four major pieces of COVID-19 response legislation. Through September 2021, we estimate that the federal government...

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Unemployment and Clientelism: The Piqueteros of Argentina

Ponce, Aldo Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the success and sustainability of the piqueteros social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I show which institutional arrangements, political actors, and configurations of power contributed...

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How do local governments decide on public policy in fiscal federalism? Tax vs. expenditure optimization

Koethenbuerger, Marko - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 11, pp. 1516-1522

, thereby, enable a more precise characterization of local government behavior in fiscal federalism. …

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Fiscal Decentralization in China: A Literature Review

Wang, Zhiguo; Ma, Liang - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 15 (2014) 1, pp. 51-65

Understanding the logic of fiscal decentralization is pivotal to the next steps of fiscal reform. The first step is a … devolution reforms, China is the ideal context to examine the causes, processes, and effects of fiscal decentralization, which … the evidence on fiscal decentralization remains mixed and inconclusive. This paper is a comprehensive review of the latest …

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How do local governments decide on public policy in fiscal federalism? Tax vs. expenditure optimization

Koethenbuerger, Marko - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

governments and, thereby, enable a more precise characterization of local government behaviour in fiscal federalism. …

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