Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …

Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …

Germany’s fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not …-run phenomenon, while long-run fiscal behavior appears more consistent with standard theories of fiscal federalism. …

Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not …-run phenomenon, while long-run fiscal behavior appears more consistent with standard theories of fiscal federalism. …

Recently Germany experienced yet another federal reform shortly after a previous modification to the German federal … case of the most recent federal reform in Germany the issue of debt limits had been effectively agreed upon as a package …

American “we-do-federalism-right” triumphalism. In the United States, as in Europe, subordinate governments are beset by … governments. That commitment was once the glory of American federalism. Over the past decade, however, the no-bailout commitment … has effectively collapsed. Its demise entails fundamental changes in American federalism, none of them encouraging. After …