Countercyclical government spending offers social protection to the vulnerable when economies move into recession. This paper questions the extent to which governments are able to spend countercyclically and the extent to which social expenditures are likely to be countercyclical. An analysis of...

This paper tests the predictions that (i) sub-central government expenditures are procyclical and (ii) sub-central government expenditures are likely to be more procyclical than central government spending. The predictions are based on the importance of ‘voracity effects’ and on the...

Das Finanzausgleichssystem verteilt von finanzstärkeren hin zu finanzschwächeren Ländern um. Dabei knüpft das aktuelle System an nominale Größen an. Da die Länder sich aber in ihrer Kaufkraft unterscheiden, stehen Ländern mit einem niedrigeren Preisniveau real mehr Mittel für die...

Das Finanzausgleichssystem verteilt von finanzstärkeren hin zu finanzschwächeren Ländern um. Dabei knüpft das aktuelle System an nominale Größen an. Da die Länder sich aber in ihrer Kaufkraft unterscheiden, stehen Ländern mit einem niedrigeren Preisniveau real mehr Mittel für die...

Has a $5.00 shipping fee ever made you second guess an online purchase? What about a sales tax? Apparently, our Supreme Court Justices pay no mind to the latter. South Dakota v. Wayfair annihilates the concept of tax-free online shopping and allows the states to compel online companies meeting...

L'Italia sta affrontando la riforma federalista della sanità in maniera inadeguata. Il trasferimento delle responsabilità economico-finanziarie dallo Stato alle Regioni sta avvenendo all'interno di una cornice normativa incompleta e su più punti internamente incoerente. Le difficoltà...

Nel corso dell'ultimo quindicennio, la spesa sanitaria pubblica ha subito una compressione e una...

Questo Working Paper risponde a due quesiti: 1) Quale distribuzione di risorse tra Regioni emergerebbe se i 106,4 miliardi di Euro del Fsn-2011 fossero ripartiti in maniera tale da riconoscere, su tutto il territorio nazionale, i medesimi rapporti di fabbisogno pro-capite tra fasce di età che...

Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...