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On enhanced cooperation
Bordignon, Massimo; Brusco, Sandro - 2003
Should a subset of member states of a federation be allowed to form a sub-union on some policy issue? When centralization is not politically feasible, allowing an enhanced cooperation agreement among a subset of countries permits the latter to gain benefits which would otherwise be lost....
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How Do Local Governments Decide on Public Policy in Fiscal Federalism? Tax vs. Expenditure Optimization
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2008
governments and, thereby, enable a more precise characterization of local government behaviour in fiscal federalism …
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Leviathans, Federal Transfers and the Cartelization Hypothesis
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2021
Federal fiscal arrangements are argued to give rise to tacit collusion among competing Leviathans (Brennan and Buchanan, The Power to Tax, CUP, 1980). Though frequently encountered in academic and policy discussions, the cartelization hypothesis has rarely been scrutinized formally. This paper...
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Tax Competition in a Fiscal Union with Decentralized Leadership
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2021
This paper examines capital tax competition in the presence of an interstate transfer policy without federal commitment. Lack of commitment implies that tax policy is chosen prior to federal transfers. The paper's main result is that ex-post federal policy internalizes horizontal fiscal...
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La Descentralización Fiscal en Argentina: Desafíos de política para los Gobiernos Subnacionales
Rezk, Ernesto - In: Revista de Economía y Estadística XLII (2004) 2, pp. 129-144
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Fiscal federalism and financial resources for regional development - co-operative and competitive models : the international experience - an example for Russia?
Seidel, Bernhard; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2000
In Western economies, the concrete design of fiscal federalism is determined by the status the federation grants to … efficiency gains offered by fiscal federalism, the vertical co-ordination of revenue and expenditure responsibilities between the …
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State Finances in India: A Case for Systemic Reform
Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
institutions of fiscal federalism system, borrowing mechanisms for the states, and governance are then discussed, with an emphasis …
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Financing of Education: Some Experiences from ten European Countries.
Werner, Jan; Shah, Anwar - Institute of Local Public Finance - 2006
Education is one of the most important services provided by public governments in almost every country worldwide. However, the most important cross-country observations about education ? like the PISA report by the OECD or the TIMSS by the IEA ? focus only on international benchmarks to compare...
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Why adopt a federal constitution? : and why decentralize? : determinants based on a new dataset
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2017
Measurement of both federalism and decentralization has been contentious. We introduce three new indicators reflecting … important aspects of both federalism and decentralization. The three new indicators are the result of principal component … evidence that it is important to distinguish between federalism and decentralization, if one is interested in ascertaining …
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Subnational Fiscal Behavior Under the Expectation of Federal Bailouts
Crivelli, Ernesto - 2011
This paper analyzes how subnational governments allocate own resources between current spending and infrastructure investment and decide on borrowing under the expectation of federal bailouts. It is assumed that states' borrowing possibilities increase with the expectation of such bailouts...
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