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How do local governments decide on public policy in fiscal federalism? Tax vs. expenditure optimization
Koethenbuerger, Marko - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 11, pp. 1516-1522
, thereby, enable a more precise characterization of local government behavior in fiscal federalism. …
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How do local governments decide on public policy in fiscal federalism?: tax vs. expenditure optimization
Köthenbürger, Marko - 2008
governments and, thereby, enable a more precise characterization of local government behaviour in fiscal federalism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264427
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How do local governments decide on public policy in fiscal federalism? : tax vs. expenditure optimization
Köthenbürger, Marko - In: Journal of public economics 95 (2011) 11/12, pp. 1516-1522
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How Do Local Governments Decide on Public Policy in Fiscal Federalism? Tax vs. Expenditure Optimization
Köthenbürger, Marko - CESifo - 2008
governments and, thereby, enable a more precise characterization of local government behaviour in fiscal federalism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765974
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Tax competition in a fiscal union with decentralized leadership
Köthenbürger, Marko - 2003
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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Reforming Federalism German Style - a First Step in the Right Direction
Döring, Thomas - 2006
The German version of federalism, often called 'cooperative federalism', has been identified by many as one of the root … and evaluates them from the point of view of fiscal federalism. It concludes that the changes are only a first step in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779636
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Ex-Post Redistribution in a Federation : Implications for Corrective Policy
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2006
This paper analyzes whether changes in the timing of equalizing transfers to state governments necessitate an adjustment in federal corrective policy. According to the existing literature (assuming an ex-ante choice of transfers), the corrective grant is equal to the marginal damage/benefit...
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State Corroding Federalism
Cai, Hongbin; Treisman, Daniel - 2007
Competition among local governments in a decentralized political system is often thought to discipline lazy or corrupt officials, improving public good provision and increasing welfare. Some scholars note possible distortions due to spillovers or a race-to-the-bottom, but suggest that central...
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Unemployment and Clientelism: The Piqueteros of Argentina
Ponce, Aldo Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the success and sustainability of the piqueteros social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I show which institutional arrangements, political actors, and configurations of power contributed...
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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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