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Dijkstra, Bouwe R.; Fredriksson, Per G. - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 319-339

This survey encompasses multiple areas. The theoretical literature on environmental federalism continues to expand in areas such as capital competition and political economy. On the empirical side, emphasis is put on the existence of strategic interaction among states, the effects of President...

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An Enabling Mechanism for the Creation, Adjustment, and Dissolution of States and Governmental Units

Hausken, Kjell; Knutsen, John F. - EconWPA - 2004

The article proposes an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of governmental units, giving autonomy to each resident as in a direct democracy. Rather than focusing on a narrow model with restrictive and specialized assumptions, and subsequent solutions, as has been...

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Inter-Regional Redistribution in Sweden: A Survey of the Literature and a Call for Further Enquiry

Almenberg, Johan - Ratioinstitutet - 2006

The Swedish system for inter-regional redistribution is examined from a political economy perspective and a growth perspective. A number of recent Swedish studies of this system are examined. Political economy concerns are found to be adequately represented in academic studies of this system,...

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On the Vote Purchasing Behavior of Incumbent Governments

Dahlberg, Matz; Johansson, Eva - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

of 115 applying municipalities. This was the first wave of a four-year long grant program intended to support local …

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Intergovernmental Grants as a Tactical Instrument: Some Empirical Evidence from Swedish Municipalities

Johansson, Eva - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

Are grants to Swedish municipalities tactical? In this essay, I derive testable implications from a theoretical voting … model and test these on a panel of 255 Swedish municipalities, 1981 - 1995. In order to decide which regions that are …

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SENDING THE PORK HOME: BIRTH TOWN BIAS IN TRANSFERS TO ITALIAN MUNICIPALITIES

Carozzi, Felipe; Repetto, Luca - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 2014

transfers. Using a panel of municipalities for the years between 1994 and 2006, we find that municipal governments of …

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Fiscal Decentralization in Specific Areas of Government. A Technical Note

Leonardo Letelier S.; Lozano, José Luis Sáez - In: Economía Mexicana NUEVA ÉPOCA XXII (2013) 2, pp. 357-373

This study makes a contribution in two basic areas. First, it sets up a model which combines efficiency as well as political economy aspects in explaining the degree of fiscal decentralization. It innovates in making explicit the benefits from better informed politicians and policy makers (Von...

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Suburban Development of St Petersburg: comparison of 2 subjects of Federation long-term visions

Limonov, Leonid - 2014

("sadovodstva") into regular settlements (municipalities) with all necessary infrustructure 6) development and financing a system of … Metropolitan Area, which includes a number of municipalities, located in Leningrad Oblast. …

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Heterogeneidades em receitas orçamentárias, eficiência e seus determinantes: Evidências para municípios brasileiros em 2010

Furtado, Bernardo Alves - 2012

Distribution of tax revenue among municipalities - which are constitutionally official federal entities in Brazil - is … half of the past century, some municipalities concentrate resources and quality public services whereas neighboring … municipalities harbor low-income workers who have to commute back to employment opportunities. As a result, urban landscape in Brazil …

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Political mergers as coalition formation: An analysis of the Heisei municipal amalgamations

Weese, Eric - 2013

Due to moral hazard problems, municipal mergers in Japan did not result in as many amalgamations as a central planner would have chosen. The inefficiency of the decentralized mergers is calculated using structural parameter estimates based on observed mergers and actual national government...

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