Any well-functioning federation is bound by shared values and by economic arrangements that ensure regions are better off inside the federation than outside it. But conflicts in both areas are inevitable, especially in a country as diverse as Canada. This paper focuses on the conflict within the...

The rise of financial technology (fintech) has the potential to provide better-quality financial services to more people. Although these enhanced financial services have arisen to meet consumer need, their regulatory status threatens that progress. Many fintech firms are regulated on a...

How do state tax rates respond to federal tax shocks? This paper presents a novel mechanism of heterogeneous vertical tax externalities across state-levels of fiscal advantage, showing that tax increases can be expansionary -- even without their reinvestment. States rich in natural resources...

Over the past decade, the rise of blockchain technology has led to the emergence of a growing number of decentralized platforms that are governed less by platform owners and more through community efforts. The emergence of blockchain platforms offers a unique opportunity to examine alternative...

The delimitation of tax administrating powers between the state and its parts (subjects, lands, etc.) has an important role in the foundation of the tax system of any state, regardless of whether it is unitary or federal. Digital economy is, above all, the emergence of new forms of management,...

The aim of this paper is to assess the extent to which different levels of decentralisation across regions of the European Union (EU) affected citizens' perceptions about European integration over the period 1973-2002. The paper uses Eurobarometer Surveys to explore by means of multinomial...