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France's environmental policies : internalising global and local externalities

Égert, Balázs - 2012

France has a very ambitious environmental-policy agenda, aimed chiefly at cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but also at dealing with local air and water pollution, waste management and the conservation of biodiversity. The laws that followed the Grenelle de l'environnement encompass policy...

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The value of information in water quality monitoring and management

Luhede, Amelie; Yaqine, Houda; Bahmanbijari, Reza; … - 2023

Environmental managers face substantial uncertainty when deciding on management actions. To reduce this uncertainty prior to decision-making, collecting new data may help arrive at more informed decisions. Whether any resulting improvement in the decision will outweigh the cost of collecting the...

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Fiscal autonomy and fiscal sustainability : subnational taxation and public indebtedness in contemporary Spain

Larin, Benjamin; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2014

This study assesses fiscal sustainability in contemporary Spain at the regional level. Spain consists of 17 autonomous regions, two fiscal regimes differing in taxing autonomy, and two path-dependent types of communities with more and less legislatively recognized autonomy. Three of the 17...

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Efficiency of decentralized road investment and pricing in a multi-jurisdictional city with spillovers

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2013

This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers, a main tenet of the … decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation context. In a monocentric city where road (bridge) capacity …

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Decentralization, vertical fiscal imbalance, and political selection

Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - 2013

decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the '90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …

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Vertical effects of fiscal rules : the Swiss experience

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P. - 2014

) provides little evidence that budget constraints at the cantonal level affect municipal finances and fiscal decentralization …

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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. Deforestation...

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The cost of decentralization : linguistic polarization and the provision of education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016

In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...

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Moral federalism : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Janeba, Eckhard - 2004

paper compares three regimes (centralization, decentralization and federalism) in an economy where individuals choose their … move from decentralization to federalism, called moral federalism, is welfare improving behind the veil of ignorance if and … only if centralization dominates decentralization, and (ii) for the group that favors a restrictive policy moral federalism …

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Fiscal delegation in a monetary union with decentralized public spending

Basso, Henrique S.; Costain, James - 2016

In a monetary union, the interaction between several governments and a single central bank is plagued by several sources of deficit bias, including common pool problems. Each government has strong preferences over local spending and taxation but suffers only part of the costs of union-wide...

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