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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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Environmental tax reform in a federation with rent-induced migration
Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - 2015
We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496890
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Vertical income tax externalities and fiscal interdependence : evidence from the US
Esteller-Moré, Alejandro; Solé-Ollé, Albert - 1999
Concurrent taxation is a feature of many federal systems. As a consequence of this fact, the tax policy of one level of government affects the tax base of the other. This paper carries out a theoretical analysis of the interdependent tax-setting decisions of federal and regional governments,...
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Does mobility of educated workers undermine decentralized education policies
Schuppert, Christiane - 2007
incentives to promote education vanish. -- fiscal federalism ; migration ; optimal taxation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892062
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Public procurement in the presence of capital taxation
Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 1999
The paper considers governments' public procurement decision as a way of influencing industry structure. In a federation in which capital is mobile and capital taxation is harmonized, a home bias in public procurement can potentially be explained as an effort to increase the capital intensity of...
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Experimentation in federal systems
Callander, Steven; Harstad, Bård - 2015
minimizing informational spillovers. To address this failure, we introduce a dynamic form of federalism in which the central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862030
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Optimal taxation, global externalities and labor mobility
Aronsson, Thomas; Blomquist, Nils Sören - 2001
This paper addresses transboundary environmental problems in the context of an optimal tax problem, when part of the labor force is mobile across countries. The policy instruments include both commodity taxation and nonlinear income taxation. We show how the tax policy in a noncooperative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398373
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Optimal taxation, global externalities and labor mobility
Aronsson, Thomas; Blomquist, Nils Sören - 2000
This paper addresses transboundary environmental problems in the context of an optimal tax problem, when part of the labor force is mobile across countries. The policy instruments include both commodity taxation and nonlinear income taxation. We show how the tax policy in a noncooperative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587552
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James Buchanan’s theory of federalism : from fiscal equity to the ideal political order
Feld, Lars P. - 2014
The distinct characteristic in James Buchanan’s thinking about federalism in contrast to the traditional theory of … fiscal federalism is his view about fiscal competition. In this paper, it is demonstrated that this thinking went through … federalism literature and concerned with equity and efficiency issues. In the Leviathan approach starting from the midseventies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384955
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Central governance or subsidiarity : a property-rights approach to federalism
Lülfesmann, Christoph - 2001 - Revised: October 2000
The paper reconsiders the theory of fiscal federalism in a framework inspired by property-rights theory. We set up a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538721