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The Fiscal Risk of Local Government Revenue in the People's Republic of China

Ziying, Fan - 2016

focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of fiscal transfers. We find that, to a certain extent, fiscal transfers significantly … promote the construction of local infrastructure. Earmarked transfers had an effect, but lump-sum transfers did not. Results … showed every 1% increase in earmarked transfers to be associated with a 5% increase in local spending on infrastructure …

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Using a Discontinuous Grant to Identify the Effect of Grants on Local Taxes and Spending

Dahlberg, Matz; Moerk, Eva; Rattsø, Jørn; Agren, Hanna - 2021

When investigating the effects of federal grants on the behavior of lower-level governments, it is hard to defend the handling of grants as an exogenous factor affecting local governments; federal governments often set grants based on characteristics and performance of local governments. In this...

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Local Property and State Income Taxes : The Role of Interjurisdictional Competition and Collusion

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 2022

This paper attempts to address two long standing questions in Public Finance: (i) why is the property tax, despite popular complaints about its fairness, the almost exclusive tax instrument used by local governments, and (ii) why do we consistently observe higher levels of governments undermine...

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The Bavarian municipal fiscal equalization scheme : emphasis on equity rather than efficiency

Lehmann, Isabella Ruth; Wrede, Matthias - In: Dimensions of regional disparities, effects of …, (pp. 67-93). 2019

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The incentive effects of conditional and unconditional transfers on local own revenue generation : empirical evidence from Moroccan municipalities

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Local revenue mobilization in Romania

Moldovan, Octavian - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 11 (2016) 3, pp. 107-124

As public institutions are faced with more diverse and increased community needs, significant concern arises (both in academia and practice) for the dwindling resources available at the local level and the factors which can influence local revenue mobilization. Using data for 3,227 Romanian...

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