Ce rapport de recherche :(1) analyse l’évolution récente des finances publiques locales en Région bruxelloise (ressources fiscales et non fiscales, régionales, communales, etc.) ;(2) simule les effets d’une baisse de la fiscalité communale sur les budgets locaux (« pertes à compenser...

The need to increase the level of resources channelled to fundamental research and higher education is broadly acknowledged. These two activities have all of the characteristics of collective or public goods: they thus need to be primarily funded with public money. Traditional economic theory...