Should governments only purchase domestic goods to increase welfare? And would government spending be higher if it was used for domestic goods only? Such proposals, which we call Buy National, were discussed in many countries in the context of the fiscal stimuli used to fight the recent global...

This article explores the question whether the ECJ should take account of the budgetary consequences of its decisions in the field of taxation, when deciding on the temporal effect of these decisions. The authors first suggest a normative framework for answering this question, by making the...

The European Union budget is distributed primarily in the form of intergovernmental grants to sub-state governments, which invest the grants in local projects. Transfers are allocated under the auspices of the European structural funds. This paper assesses the causal links between electoral...

The search for political determinants of intergovernmental fiscal relations has shaped much of the recent literature on the economic viability of federalism. This study assesses the explanatory power of two competing views about intergovernmental transfers; one emphasizing the traditional...

American emigrants face many consequences from the extraterritorial application of U.S. taxation and banking policies. Their names, addresses, and Social Security numbers are collected, placed on lists of “suspected U.S. persons,” and submitted to a “Crimes Enforcement Network.” They...

The U.S. extraterritorial tax system has evolved such that today it is more consequential than one century ago. The system, conceived in the stigmatization of overseas Americans, consists of highly penalizing taxation and banking policies that make it difficult for overseas Americans to live...

This is the second in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S. extraterritorial tax system.This paper summarizes the findings of three recent surveys conducted to better understand how overseas Americans experience U.S. extraterritorial taxation.The three surveys discussed in this paper expose...

This is the third in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S extraterritorial tax system.This paper describes the efforts of many different organizations and individuals to change to the U.S. extraterritorial tax system, to lessen its burden on overseas Americans

This is the tenth in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S extraterritorial tax system.The U.S. extraterritorial tax system violates multiple provisions of international human rights instruments that have been signed, or signed and ratified, by the United States. The rights in question...

This is the twelfth in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S extraterritorial tax system.Overseas Americans pay taxes in thecountries where they live. Most owe no U.S. tax.The U.S extraterritorial tax system is not about paying taxes, not for overseas Americans and not for the United States....