Search Results - subject:"FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION"

Equilibrium Impotence : Why the States and Not the American National Government Financed Economic Development in the Antebellum Era

Wallis, John Joseph; Weingast, Barry R. - 2021

Why did states dominate investments in economic development in early America? Between 1787 and 1860, the national government%u2019s $54 million on promoting transportation infrastructure while the states spent $450 million. Using models of legislative choice, we show that Congress could not...

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How Do Subnational Governments React to Shocks to Different Revenue Sources? Evidence from Hydrocarbon-Producing Provinces in Argentina

Besfamille, Martin; Jorrat, Diego; Manzano, Osmel; … - 2021

Based on the fiscal regime that prevailed in Argentina from 1988 to 2003, we estimate the effects that changes in intergovernmental transfers and hydrocarbon royalties had on provincial public consumption and debt. From a one-peso increase in intergovernmental transfers, all provinces spent 76...

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What Does the European Union Do?

Alesina, Alberto; Angeloni, Ignazio; Schuknecht, Ludger - 2021

We construct a set of indicators to measure the policy-making role of the European Union (European Council, Parliament, Commission, Court of Justice, etc.), in a selected number of policy domains. Our goal is to examine the division of prerogatives between European institutions and national...

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Are incentive effects from fiscal equalization underestimated? : evidence from a Swiss reform

Mauri, Nicola - 2021

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Optimal Taxation in a Federation and GST in India

Chatterjee, Partha; Ray Barman, Trishita - 2021

Optimal tax models, starting from Ramsey (1927), are often studied using a single government. However, there are several countries which are federations and in that multiple levels of government have fiscal authority, which masks the heterogeneity across states. In this paper we study a...

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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System

Brown, Charles; Oates, Wallace E. - 2021

This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...

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Subnational Sustainable Development : The Role of Vertical Intergovernmental Transfers in Reaching Multidimensional Goals

Guerrero, Omar A.; Castañeda Ramos, Gonzalo; Trujillo, … - 2021

subnational level, and it is especially relevant for the study of fiscal decentralization from the expenditure point of view …

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Revisiting the Nexus between Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size - the Role of Ethnic Fragmentation

Choudhury, Atrayee; Sahu, Sohini - 2021

This study analyses a possible reason behind the ambiguous relationship between fiscal decentralization and government …, thereby increasing the level of aggregate government spending through fiscal decentralization. It is tested by employing a … comes into the picture, it dilutes the negative association, which is suggestive of the fact that fiscal decentralization …

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Impact of Income Inequality and Fiscal Decentralization on Public Health : Evidence from China

Wu, Haitao - 2021

In this study, the interrelationship between income inequality, fiscal decentralization, and public health is … performance. Interestingly, fiscal decentralization has negative direct and indirect effects on public health. Therefore, the … fiscal decentralization, should take the problem of income inequality more seriously, because fiscal decentralization and …

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Asymmetric decentralization : distortions and opportunities

Fiorillo, Fabio; Giuranno, Michele G.; Sacchi, Agnese - In: Economia politica : journal of analytical and … 38 (2021) 2, pp. 625-656

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