This paper investigates whether the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has had any measurable impact on Alabama pulpwood production since 1993. The method used is to establish a time series model up to the beginning of NAFTA and examine whether there has been a discernable shift since....

The operation of the horizontal fiscal equalisation (HFE) system between the Australian States has had an impact on service delivery. It redistributes funds among State governments to give each of them the same capacity to provide services. However, service standards are not the same across...

This re[prt presents a quantitative ecomonic model used to determine the macroeconomic impact of tax reforms in Jamaica. We identify the magnitude and nature of changes to production, trade, and consumer welfare related to raising additional government funds.The current results suggest that...

In spite of their long history and constitutional status, local governments in Bangladesh have a poor record of being an efficient, accountable and responsive provider of public services at local level. Over the decades, the local government system in Bangladesh has been “more an area of...

This article analyses the workings of the new Spanish system of intergovernmental transfers, which has been in operation since 2009, and compares its expected effects with those of the model that was in force until 2008. The paper considers the effects of the new model at the base year of...

This paper provides a discussion of the principles of environmental taxation. It considers the empirical identification of environmental taxes and the problems associated with the choice of the right tax base from the point of view of the correction of market incentives. It then presents a model...

Outside the United States, fiscal equity is a common explicit objective for intergovernmental transfers at the central and regional levels, with transfers often having specific equalization targets. In contrast, the United States does not have a comprehensive federal transfer scheme for explicit...