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

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo explica los sistemas de financiación de las regiones federales de Bélgica y de España. En él se puede encontrar una explicación y un análisis detallados del actual sistema de financiación de las Comunidades Autónomas españolas, así como también del...

In a dynamic market, the city has become a main source of competitiveness, along with financial and economic benefits. Due to the processes of digitalization, a new concept has been developed, namely smart cities. This concept delivers economic and financial potential, not only to cities, but...

This study examines the size and diversity of tax expenditures (TEs) by gminas (municipalities) in Poland between 2007 and 2019. Consequences of gminas' taxing power and the reduction of revenues resulting from statutory tax preferences were taken into account. To analyze the data, we used:...

Local taxes and the related taxing power are significant determinants of public authority decentralization. Local taxes should primarily serve as an effective source of self-government revenues. Therefore, it is extremely important to identify and comprehend the motives and behaviors of...

We develop a theory of commodity taxation featuring imperfect competition along with love-of-variety preferences and endogenous firm entry and exit, and we derive new formulas for the efficiency and pass-through of specific and ad valorem taxes. These formulas unify existing canonical ones and...

Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...

Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...

Nachdem das Bundesverfassungsgericht 2018 die bisherige Grundsteuererhebung für verfassungswidrig erklärt hat, haben elf Bundesländer das sogenannte Bundesmodell als Nachfolgeverfahren gewählt. Es basiert weiterhin auf einer Bewertung der Grundstücke mithilfe des modifizierten...

Nachdem das Bundesverfassungsgericht 2018 die bisherige Grundsteuererhebung für verfassungswidrig erklärt hat, haben elf Bundesländer das sogenannte Bundesmodell als Nachfolgeverfahren gewählt. Es basiert weiterhin auf einer Bewertung der Grundstücke mithilfe des modifizierten...