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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 …

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The Political Economy of Compensatory Federalism

Gordon, Sanford C. - 2017

To what extent does the federal structure of policymaking in the United States mitigate or exacerbate national political conflict? We develop a model of two-level governance in a federal system in the presence of interstate preference heterogeneity and cross-state externalities. The key...

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The Distortionary Effects of Subsidies for Charity in a Federal System

Galle, Brian D. - 2011

Prevailing accounts of the efficiency of subsidies for the nonprofit sector presume that the only alternative source of public goods is a single sovereign, controlled by a single median voter. Tiebout sorting, however, also provides citizens with alternative bundles of public goods. When these...

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Intertwined Federalism : Accountability Problems Under Partial Decentralization

Joanis, Marcelin - 2009

Decentralization reforms typically lead to the coexistence of multiple tiers of government in a given policy area. To analyze the welfare effects of such partial decentralization, this paper develops a political agency model in which two levels of government are involved in public good provision...

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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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Central governance or subsidiarity : a property-rights approach to federalism

Lülfesmann, Christoph - 2001

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Enlargement versus Deepening : The Trade-Off Facing Economic Unions

Lorz, Oliver - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between the size of an economic union and the degree of policy centralization. We consider a political economy setting in which elected representatives bargain about the degree of centralization within the union. In our model strategic delegation affects the...

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On the Endogenous Allocation of Decision Powers in Federal Structures

Lorz, Oliver - 2012

This paper provides a political-economy explanation of the degree of centralization in economic policy making. To determine which policies are to be centralized, regions select representatives who then negotiate the degree of centralization and the regional cost shares of centrally decided...

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A Positive Model of Overlapping Income Taxation in a Federation of States

Klor, Esteban F. - 2005

This paper develops a positive theory of overlapping income taxation in a federation of states. The analysis provides a …

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A Political Economy Model of the Vertical Fiscal Gap and Vertical Fiscal Imbalances in a Federation

Dahlby, Bev G. - 2013

We develop a political economy model of intergovernmental transfers. Vertical fiscal balance occurs in a federation when the ratio of the marginal benefit of the public services provided by the federal and provincial governments is equal to their relative marginal costs of production. With...

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