Search Results - subject:"FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION"

Public finance in the era of the COVID-19 crisis

Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022 - This Version: September 2022

The COVID-19 crisis poses new policy challenges and has spurred new research agendas in public economics. In this article, we selectively reflect on how the field of public economics has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss several areas where more research is necessary. We highlight...

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Public finance in the era of the Covid-19 crisis

Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022

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A Dynamic Model of Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt Accumulation

Guo, Si; Pei, Yun; Xie, Leiyu - 2022

quantitatively how fiscal decentralization affects local and central government debt accumulation and spending. In the model, the … local and central debts are inefficiently high. Consistent with empirical evidence, when fiscal decentralization widens …

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The World Bank's Support for Subnational Governance in Large Federal Countries : Lessons Learned from Argentina, Brazil and Nigeria

Stoykov, Petar Georgiev - 2022

Limited local tax revenue and low public sector efficiency are two critical problems of public sector management and key constraints for the economic and social development of many subnational governments in large federal countries. To create fiscal space without compromising macroeconomic...

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Fiscal Decentralization in Croatia : Fiskalna Decentralizacija u Hrvatskoj

World Bank Group - 2022

The problems in Croatia's fiscal decentralization system have long been recognized. The fragmented territorial …-administrative structure, fiscal decentralization efforts with insufficient fiscal autonomy, inconsistent public service standards, unbalanced … needed for the government to finally implement reforms in support of fiscal decentralization and more effective financing of …

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Stealth Fiscal Transfers : Estimation of Intracity Fiscal Transfers in Japan

Sekiguchi, Shunsuke - 2022

This study aims to investigate intracity fiscal transfers from the city planning areas (CPAs) to outside the city planning areas (non-CPAs) that are not recorded on the municipal account settlement cards and to estimate the existence and amount of these transfers. The current location...

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Federal Patent Takings

Storm, Chris - 2022

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Policy Forum : Carbon Taxes and Fiscal Federalism in Canada—A New Wrinkle to an Old Problem

Snoddon, Tracy - 2022

The federal government intends to increase its minimum carbon tax from $40 per tonne of carbon emissions to $170 per tonne by 2030. The carbon tax increase will have uneven and potentially large impacts on provincial emissions and carbon tax revenue, but little is known about how decisions to...

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Decentralisation

Wright, Dr Craig S - 2022

A system such as bitcoin operates using a Proof of Work based consensus mechanism that many individuals have falsely claimed limits the ability for the system to scale. As a result, alternative proposals based on Proof of Stake are misleadingly being promoted as scaling solutions. However, it...

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Fiscal Federalism in Continuous Time Stochastic Economies

Amador, Joao L.M - 2022

This paper examines the different types of incentives that countries face when deciding to take part in a federal fiscal system. The optimal degree of participation depends on the structural parameters of the economy and on the properties of the federal fiscal system. Firstly, the paper examines...

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