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The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of revenue decentralization on the provision of infrastructure at the sub-national level. We estimate the effects of revenue decentralization and earmarked grant financing on the level of sub-national infrastructure investment in 20 European...
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of revenue decentralization on the provision of infrastructure at the sub-national level. We estimate the effects of revenue decentralization and earmarked grant financing on the level of sub-national infrastructure investment in 20 European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579228
Spending on productive infrastructure is seen as an important contributor to long term economic growth. Several authors have documented a downward trend in public investment during the last three decades and warned about its possible detrimental effects on the economy. A not well-realized fact...
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government capital transfers. This allows a wider picture of the general government and intergovernmental relationships. The main …
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considers the presence of cycles in central, states and local investments and central government capital transfers allowing a …
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government capital transfers. This allows a wider picture of the general government and intergovernmental relationships. The main …
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recurrent budgets accelerates regional growth, hence confirming the Keynesian hypothesis. Conversely, fiscal transfer in capital … improve budget allocation and execution in capital budgets so as to improve physical infrastructure and thus boost private …
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threshold level of public capital maintenance for ongoing growth. We also examine the fiscal implications of public capital … maintenance policies and we find that the composition of public capital expenditures under congestion is a crucial determinant of …In this paper we study the equilibrium properties of an endogenous growth model, in which public maintenance …
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The modern fiscal decentralization development across the world has been in part driven by assertions of a supposed ‘economic dividend’ linked with local spending. There is, however, little empirical evidence to validate these assertions in Kenya. It is against this background that this...
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With capital‐skill complementarity, the secular decline in the price of capital equipment due to equipment … of whether the Ramsey (1927) or the Mirrlees (1971) approach is adopted. First, a tax on capital equipment corrects the … optimal taxation resembles the empirical decline in capital taxes and the increase in labor taxes observed in the United …
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