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Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021

We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...

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Local property and state income taxes : the role of interjurisdictional competition and collusion

Nechyba, Thomas J. - In: Journal of political economy 105 (1997) 2, pp. 351-384

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Mobility and redistribution

Epple, Dennis N. - In: Journal of political economy 99 (1991) 4, pp. 828-858

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The political resource curse

Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010

endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence refers to municipalities in Brazil, where federal transfers to municipal … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. -- Government spending ; corruption …

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Legislative term limits and state aid to local governments

Yakovlev, Pavel; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Lewis, William P. - 2012

-barrel spending, which takes the form of higher transfers from state to local governments. This finding might also imply that …-seeking ; transportation ; welfare ; education ; health ; intergovernmental aid and transfers …

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The importance of local fiscal conditions in analyzing local labor markets

Gyourko, Joseph E. - In: Journal of political economy 97 (1989) 5, pp. 1208-1231

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The structure of local public finance and the quality of life

Gyourko, Joseph E. - In: Journal of political economy 99 (1991) 4, pp. 774-806

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Fiscal competition and the composition of public spending : theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald (contributor); Caliendo, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different...

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Public expenditure, demography and growth : theory and evidence from India

Pranab Kumar Das; Kar, Saibal - 2016

Many countries in the developed world are ageing in terms of their distribution of population. Conversely, a number of countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the mean age close to 27 years as of present times....

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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment : do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012

We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...

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