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Public Budget Composition, Fiscal (De)Centralization and Welfare

Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

composition. Only when the differences are sufficiently large does full decentralization become the optimal regime. National … conjecture" that fiscal decentralization increases capital accumulation. However, in terms of welfare this result can be reversed. …

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Policy responses to fiscal restraints: A difference-in-discontinuities design

Grembi, Veronica; Nannicini, Tommaso; Troiano, Ugo - 2012

We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing fiscal discipline on municipal governments, and in 2001 the rules were relaxed for municipalities...

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Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design

Grembi, Veronica; Nannicini, Tommaso; Troiano, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico

Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Herrera, … - 2020

A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...

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Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions

Cattoir, Philippe; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004

This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Dr?ze's distributive neutrality condition, we use the generational accounting technique and propose a dynamic...

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Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions

Cattoir, Philippe; Docquier, Frédéric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Drèze's distributive neutrality condition, we use the generational accounting technique and propose a dynamic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822728

Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia?s Regions

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - 2000

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country?s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...

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The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks

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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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country’s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...

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The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir, Bambang Suharnoko - 2014

We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …

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