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New evidence on fiscal decentralization and the size of government

Fiva, Jon H. - 2005

This paper adds to the literature by utilizing improved data on tax revenue decentralization to re-examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and the size of government. An econometric analysis using panel data from 18 OECD countries shows that fiscal decentralization matters for...

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Political competition and convergence to fundamentals : with application to the political business cycle and the size of government

Ferris, J. Stephen; Park, Soo-Bin; Winer, Stanley L. - 2006

We address the problem of how to investigate whether economics, or politics, or both, matter in the explanation of public policy. The problem is first posed in a particular context by uncovering a political business cycle (using Canadian data for 130 years) and by taking up the challenge to make...

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Democratization and the size of government: Evidence from the long 19th century

Aidt, Toke; Jensen, Peter S. - 2013

We study the consequences of franchise extension and ballot reform for the size of government in Western Europe between 1820 and 1913. We find that franchise extension exhibits a U-shaped association with revenue per capita and a positive association with spending per capita. Instrumental...

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Determinants of constitutional change: Why do countries change their form of governments?

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2010

A country's form of government has important economic and political consequences, but the determinants that lead countries to choose either parliamentary or presidential systems are largely unexplored. This paper studies this choice by analyzing the factors that make countries switch from...

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Indirect Savings from Public Procurement Centralization

Lotti, Clarissa; Muço, Arieda; Spagnolo, Giancarlo; … - 2023

Centralization of public procurement can lower prices for the government's direct purchase of goods and services. This …

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On Government Centralization and Budget Referendums: Evidence from Switzerland

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Feld, Lars P. - 2001

federalism in which centralization is less likely to occur where budget referendums are possible. The reason for this result is … that budget referendums reduce the extent to which pro-centralization regions can commit to a low level of spending … delegating the centralization choice to elected poli-cymakers. In addition, it reduces the ability of higher level policy …

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Interjurisdictional linkages and the scope for interventionist legal harmonization

Baniak, Andrzej; Grajzl, Peter - 2010

standard-setting with two means of interventionist harmonization: through centralization and through allocation of lawmaking …

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Conservation Contracts and Political Regimes

Harstad, Bård; Mideksa, Torben - 2015

Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal conservation contract, (iii) when the donor prefers contracting with central rather than local governments, and (iv) how the donor’s presence may induce institutional change....

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Should Unemployment Insurance be Centralized in a State Union?

Fenge, Robert; Friese, Max - 2018

This paper compares the decentral organization of unemployment insurance in member states of a state union with the central organization at the upper union’ level. In a model of two countries the labor force and the firm owners can migrate between the states. Labor markets exhibit unemployment...

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EU Solidarity and Policy in Fighting Infectious Diseases: State of Play, Obstacles, Citizen Preferences and Ways Forward.

de Ruijter, Anniek; Beetsma, Roel; Burgoon, Brian; … - 2020

. We conclude that a more robust policy framework with substantial centralization of procurement, stockpiling and …

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