Droste, Nils; Becker, Claudia; Ring, Irene; Santos, Rui - 2017
Portugal has a unitary system in which the central government transfers funds to lower government levels for their … public functions. In 2007, Portugal introduced Ecological Fiscal Transfers (EFT), where municipalities receive transfers for … hosting Protected Areas (PA). We study whether introducing EFT in Portugal incentivized municipalities to designate PA and has …
