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Russian Fiscal Federalism: Impact of Political and Fiscal (De)centralization

Alexeev, Michael; Weber, Shlomo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

and the elimination of elections of regional governors in 2005 have brought a substantial rise of political centralization … evaluating the response of regional government’s expenditures to changes in the size of the GRP (gross regional product) and to … changes in the region’s tax collections. While the results related to regional shares of tax revenues and expenditures are …

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Horizontal and Vertical Indirect Tax Competition: Theory and Some Evidence From the USA

Devereux, Michael P.; Lockwood, Ben; Redoano, Michela - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper provides a simple theoretical framework for analysing simultaneous vertical and horizontal competition in excise taxes, and estimates equations informed by the theory on a panel of US state and federal excise taxes on cigarettes and gasoline. We also examine the role played by...

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Why Do Trade Negotiations Take So Long?

Moser, Christoph; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

the span between the start of trade talks and their conclusion. We use data from 88 regional trade agreements between 1988 …

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Economics and Climate Change: Integrated Assessment in a Multi-Region World

Hassler, John; Krusell, Per - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper develops a model that integrates the climate and the global economy---an integrated assessment model---with which different policy scenarios can be analyzed and compared. The model is a dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium setup with a continuum of regions. Thus, it is a full...

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Assessing the Effects of Local Taxation Using Microgeographic Data

Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent; Overman, Henry G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study the impact of local taxation on the location and growth of firms. Our empirical methodology pairs establishments across jurisdictional boundaries to estimate the impact of taxation. Our approach improves on existing work as it corrects for unobserved establishment heterogeneity, for...

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Reforming the Australian Tax Transfer System.

Apps, Patricia - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999

level of income taxation and the progression of marginal rates, financing the revenue shortfall with a broad based …

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Estimating the Impact of Gubernatorial Partisanship on Policy Settings and Economic Outcomes: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

Using panel data from US states over the period 1941-2002, I measure the impact of gubernatorial partisanship on a wide range of different policy settings and economic outcomes. Across 32 measures, there are surprisingly few differences in policy settings, social outcomes and economic outcomes...

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Fiscal Federalism in Times of Crisis

Foremny, Dirk; von Hagen, Jürgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study the subnational fiscal adjustment to the Great Recession in a sample of European countries. We find that there are important differences between unitary and federal countries. Subnational governments in federal states reacted to the Great Recession by running larger budget deficits...

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Taxes in Cities

Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we review the literature on a number of salient...

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How to make the metropolitan area work? Neither big government, nor laissez-faire

Gaigné, Carl; Riou, Stéphane; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study how political boundaries and fiscal competition interact with the labor and land markets to determine the economic structure and performance of metropolitan areas. Contrary to general belief, institutional fragmentation need not be welfare-decreasing, and commuting from the suburbs to...

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