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Tax Responses in Local Public Finance : The Flypaper Effect at Work

Köthenbürger, Marko; Loumeau, Gabriel - 2023

The transfer elasticity of income tax rates is an important parameter in public finance. Given the significant fiscal autonomy of Swiss municipalities, Switzerland is an ideal setting for examining behavioral responses to tax policy. Using a regression kink design, we find robust causal evidence...

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Fiscal transfers and fiscal sustainability

Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus - 2014

We examine whether US and German state governments pursue sustainable fiscal policies taking into account fiscal transfers. Using panel data techniques we investigate whether the debt-to-GDP ratio had a positive influence on the primary surplus (Bohn-model). We show that including/excluding...

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Lost in America : evidence on local sales taxes from national panel data

Agrawal, David - 2014 - This Version: June 2014

This paper studies comprehensive national panel data of local option sales taxes at the monthly frequency. I calculate state-by-month population weighted averages of local sales tax rates. I document ten stylized facts concerning the time series patterns and spatial dynamics of local sales...

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Fiscal Transfers and Fiscal Sustainability

Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

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The political economy of fiscal reform in Latin America : the case of Argentina

Bonvecchi, Alejandro - 2010

This paper investigates the political economy of fiscal reform activism in Argentina since the late 1980s. Between 1988 and 2008, tax legislation was changed 83 times, fiscal federal rules 14 times, and budgetary institutions sixteen times. Tax and budgetary reforms moved from centralizing...

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Does Causation hold for Panel Data in between SDP and NTR among Indian States?

Pandey, Alok Kumar - In: Journal of Global Economy 10 (2014) 1, pp. 3-15

product in India is concerned, limited studies have been done. Present study tries to explore the stationarity and …

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Determining gender equity in fiscal federalism : analytical issues and empirical evidence from India

Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2010

, focusing on the plausibility of incorporating gender into financial devolution, with the Thirteenth Finance Commission of India … the prosperous states of India—there can be no valid objection to using Finance Commission transfers for this purpose. A … can and should play a role in upholding the right to life for India’s girl children. That being said, it needs to be …

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The Determinants and Impacts of Local Revenue Raising and Higher Level Grants in Rural India

Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P - 2015

A nationally representative Indian panel data set is used to estimate systems of equations which account for endogeneity of grants received by villages. The estimates explore the factors that determine the levels of employment generating, social welfare, untied grants; the impacts of these...

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Indian fiscal federalism at the crossroads : some reflections

Wray, L. Randall - 2019

of the Planning Commission, the creation of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, the … Council and Finance Commissions, and if India should devise a mechanism of transfer that is predominantly based on sharing of … tensions in federal-state relations in India. …

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Vanishing Borders of Urban Local Finance : Global Developments with Illustrations from Indian Federation

Nath, Shyam; Madhoo, Yeti Nisha - 2022

Chapter 1: Background and Emerging Challenges -- Chapter 2: Theory of Fiscal Federalism and Local Fiscal Domain -- Chapter 3: Fiscal Decentralization and Local Area Corporate Social Responsibility -- Chapter 4: Globalization, Climate Change and Changing Face of Urban Public Finance -- Chapter 5:...

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