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Should different people have different governments?
Boffa, Federico; Piolatto, Amedeo; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
The classic theory of fiscal federalism suggests that different people should have different governments. Yet, separate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849630
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Should Different People Have Different Governments?
Boffa, Federico; Piolatto, Amedeo; Ponzetto, Giacomo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015
The classic theory of fiscal federalism suggests that different people should have different governments. Yet, separate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274513
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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017
Governments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the government's taxation levels. We examine the political economy of decentralized revenue-raising authority in light of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762207
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'A Light Unto the Nations' - The New British Federalism, the Scottish Parliament, and Constitutional Lessons for Multiethnic States
Picker, Colin B. - 2009
This abstract is taken from an article entitled quot;'A Light Unto the Nations' - The New British Federalism, the … our own federalism through examination of another, the Article demonstrates that this new and unique federalism provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767059
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Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and tactical political maneuverings : evidence from Ghana's District Assemblies Common Fund
Fumey, Abel - 2018
This paper examines the influence of political considerations on intergovernmental fiscal transfers in Ghana. The two-step system GMM approach was used to estimate transfers and elections data for 167 districts from 1994 to 2014. The analysis was country-wide and covers swing districts as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806757
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Unequal States, Unequal People : Fiscal Inequity and the Values of Federalism
Schapiro, Robert A. - 2019
The fields of regulatory federalism and fiscal federalism have developed largely in isolation from each other. Building … on the new scholarship of federalism in the legal academy, this Article seeks to integrate the insights of the two areas … regulatory federalism. One of the most important elements of fiscal federalism, generally unappreciated in legal scholarship, is …
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Representation and regional redistribution in federations
Dragu, Tiberiu; Rodden, Jonathan - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010
This paper examines the role of institutions of territorial representation in shaping long-term patterns of inter …-regional redistribution within federations. A simple legislative bargaining model with endogenous taxation suggests that over … that a striking relationship between legislative representation and grants holds up in a diverse group of federations from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516553
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Does the winner take it all? : redistributive policies and political extremism
Daniele, Gianmarco; Piolatto, Amedeo; Sassen, Wim - 2020
We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200220
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Decentralization and progressive taxation
Berset, Simon; Schelker, Mark - 2021
The traditional normative literature on fiscal federalism argues that redistributive policies should be centralized in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421200
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Federal tax autonomy and the limits of cooperation
Kessing, Sebastian G.; Konrad, Kai A.; Kotsogiannis, … - Abteilung "Marktprozesse und Steuerung", … - 2005
We consider the hold-up problem between a foreign direct investor and the government(s) in a host country with weak governmental structure and lack of power to commit. Using Nash threats, we show that an efficient investment level can be sustained for a sufficiently high discount factor and ask...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367927