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Autonomy and equity in the new funding system for autonomous regions in Spain

Pedraja Chaparro, Pedraja Chaparro , Francisco; Utrilla … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2010) 18, pp. 191-218

regional revenues) in the entire Autonomous regions’ trajectory. Finally, it is worth noting the surprising lack of commitment … in terms of effective corresponsibility and budgeting consolidation in regional governments, which can be explained an …

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Incentive Solutions

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004

This paper reviews the research literature relevant to economic development incentives provided by state and local governments, and recommends reforms in these incentives. I argue that the main problem with current incentive policies is that state and local governments often provide incentives...

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Optimal country's policy towards multinationals when local regions can choose between firm-specific and non-firm-specific policies

Parcero, Osiris J. - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009

degree of regional tax competition is good for country’s welfare. Moreover, we show that the implementation of the regional … firmspecific policies weakly welfare dominates the implementation of the regional non-firmspecific ones. Hence the not infrequent …

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Inter-jurisdiction Subsidy Competition for a New Production Plant: What is the Central Government Optimal Policy?

Parcero, Osiris J. - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 2006

This paper models inter-jurisdiction competition for foreign direct investment and optimal government policy intervention to protect the national interest. The inter-jurisdiction competition for a multinational has the potential of favouring the multinational and of becoming detrimental for the...

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The Effects of an Inter-regional Transfer with Empire-Building Regional Governments

Groenewold, Nicolaas; Hagger, Alfred J. - In: The Review of Regional Studies 35 (2005) 1, pp. 38-63

regional governments. We use a model that has two regions, each with households, firms, and a regional government as well as a … federal government. The households, firms, and regional governments are all optimizers--households maximize utility, firms … maximize profits, and we assume that regional governments are empire-builders in that they choose their expenditure and tax …

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Austria: Public Sector Inefficiencies Have Become Less Affordable

Fischer, Karin; Gönenç, Rauf; Price, Robert W.R. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

Performance of fiscal policy, while good in international comparison, is not sufficient to prepare for future ageing-related spending increases. Subject to macroeconomic developments, the pace of consolidation could be more ambitious than currently planned, with a view to reducing the debt...

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Finantarea autoritatilor locale in Romania

Mutascu, Mihai; Lobont, Oana; Crasneac, Alexandru Ocatavian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper is trying to establish, in Romania, at macroeconomic level, quantitative and qualitative, relations between gross domestic product and governmental and local revenues.

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The Fiscal Incentive Effects of the Australian Equalisation System

Dahlby, Bev; Warren, Neil - Australian Taxation Studies Program (ATAX), Faculty of Law - 2002

Equalisation grants can affect a state's fiscal behaviour because its tax policies can affect the size of its grant. For a large state, an increase in its tax rate will increase the standard tax rate used to calculate the grant for that base and thereby reduce (increase) the state's grant if it...

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Intergorvernmental Fuscal Relations in Developing Countries. A Review of Issues.

Fjeldstad, O.H. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich - 2001

Fiscal decentralisation - the devolution of taxing and spending powers to lowe levels of government - has become an important theme of governance in many developing countries in recent years. Accordingly, restructuring of governmental functions and finances between the national and lower levels...

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Tax Decentralization: Solutions for Bulgaria

Pashev, Konstantin - In: Economic Thought journal (2007) 7, pp. 67-88

The study draws on the theory of optimal taxation and the practice in a number of federal and unitary countries to outline the conceptual framework of the allocation of revenue responsibilities among levels of government. À distinction has been made between decentralized tax policy (the power...

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