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Is Fiscal Decentralization Conflict Abating? Routine Violence and District Level Government in Java, Indonesia

Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2008

Utilising a newly created data set we examine the relationship between routine/everyday violence and fiscal decentralization in 98 districts of the Indonesian island of Java. By examining possible relationships between fiscal decentralization and routine violence, this paper fills a gap in the...

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Fiscal Federalism and Grant-in-Aid Design for the Provision of Impure Public Goods

Levaggi, Laura; Levaggi, Rosella - 2011

The traditional fiscal federalism theory shows that the devolution of functions for the supply of local public goods may increase welfare. However, most services offered at local level are impure local public goods with spillovers. These goods have specific characteristics that may prevent...

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Case study of central and local government finance in Japan

Bessho, Shun-ichiro - 2016

This paper aims to provide an overview of the basics of Japan's local public administration and finance system and to analyze how Japan's municipalities restore their fiscal balance after a fiscal shock. In Japan, local governments play a major role in redistribution. Combined with regional...

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Regional investment and individual redistribution in a federation

Kessing, Sebastian; Schneider, Benny - 2014

We study the strategic incentives of regional governments to allocate their budget to public investment and to public consumption expenditures against the background of an incentive-compatible redistribution policy set by the central government. Regional investment changes the productivity...

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Distributional effects of intergovernmental transfers in Mexico

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Moreno … - 2020

public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a large fiscal transfer fund earmarked for social investment in more … effects on seven nonmonetary welfare measures. In contrast, these funds have no significant impact on extreme and moderate … monetary poverty. These results provide important lessons for policy on the effects of earmarked funds to reduce territorial …

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Local government financing during the electoral business cycle : analysing the role of intergovernmental political alignment on municipality budgets in Greece

Kitsos, Anastasios; Proestakis, Antonios - 2018

for the period 2003-2010. A panel dataset combining local and national elections with local budgets is used to run a fixed-effects …

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How Do Subnational Governments React to Shocks to Revenue Sources? Evidence from Argentina

Besfamille, Martin; Jorrat, Diego; Manzano, Osmel; … - 2019

that prevailed in Argentina from 1988 to 2003, we jointly estimate the effects that changes in these public revenues had on …

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Unfunded Mandates and Fiscal Structure : Empirical Evidence from a Synthetic Control Model

Ross, Justin M. - 2016

employed to derive the causal effects of the mandate limit on total state expenditures and state transfers to local governments …

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Intergovernmental Grants and Public Input Provision : Theory and Evidence from Germany

Hauptmeier, Sebastian - 2008

This paper uses a simple model of fiscal competition between local jurisdictions to analyse the impact of intergovernmental grants on the composition of public spending. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of fiscal equalisation coincides with a smaller overall share...

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Fiscal Transfers and Fiscal Sustainability

Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

We examine whether US and German state governments pursue sustainable fiscal policies taking into account fiscal transfers. Using panel data techniques we investigate whether the debt-to-GDP ratio had a positive influence on the primary surplus (Bohn-model). We show that including/excluding...

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