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Interest Group Politics in a Federation

Guriev, Sergej; Jakovlev, Evgenij; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - 2014

The optimal degree of decentralization depends on the importance of inter-state externalities of local policies. We …

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Fiscal Decentralization in the Republic of Moldova

Petroia, Andrei - 2016

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Federative relations and Russia spatial problem

Vardomskij, Leonid Borisovič - 2014

Benefits of federation are in more flexible use of the social and economic potential of its subjects at wide inter-regional competition. The federal system allows to use effects of either greater economic space or more complete considering of local conditions and interests. Specificity of modern...

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Economic Integration and Fiscal Decentralization : Evidence from OECD Countries

Stegarescu, Dan - 2008

decentralization in OECD countries. Based on a theoretical framework, the empirical panel analysis relates the degree of public sector … decentralization to economic and European integration, controlling for inter-regional heterogeneity, economies of scale, and …

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Improving service delivery through decentralization : a challenge for Asia

Brosio, Giorgio - 2014

This paper assesses how decentralization can contribute, if proper political and fiscal institutions are present, to … improving service delivery in Asia. In other words, decentralization is an opportunity and a challenge at the same time. The … issues leading to "partial decentralization" that is common to most models. Consideration is also given to the emerging …

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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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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2016

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

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Public provision and local income tax competition

Kuhlmey, Florian; Hintermann, Beat - 2016

We extend the literature on local income tax competition by allowing for inter-jurisdictional spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of a publicly provided good. Comparing decentralized second-best results of a theoretical model with an efficient benchmark, we identify three...

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Federalism and innovation support for small and medium-sized enterprises : empirical evidence in Europe

Becker, Lasse; Bizer, Kilian - 2015

Private innovative activities receive public innovation support from different political levels. Few studies have empirically evaluated the influence of political systems on the reception of public innovation support and no other studies have evaluated innovation support across Europe with CIS...

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Experimentation in federal systems

Callander, Steven; Harstad, Bård - 2015

We develop a model of policy experimentation in federal systems in which heterogeneous districts choose both whether to experiment and the policies to experiment with. The prospect of informational spillovers implies that in the fi rst best the districts converge in their policy choice....

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