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Fiscal Decentralization in the Republic of Moldova

Petroia, Andrei - 2016

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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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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

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

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Fiscal autonomy and self-setermination

Loumeau, Gabriel; Stettler, Christian - 2021

This paper studies the equilibrium effects of local fiscal autonomy accounting for benefits from self-determination. It proposes a quantifiable structural equilibrium framework in which imperfectly mobile heterogeneous households sort themselves across jurisdictions under endogenous public good...

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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland

Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018

setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …

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Distributional effects of intergovernmental transfers in Mexico

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Moreno … - 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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Regional Stabilization by Fiscal Equalization? Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence from Germany

Büttner, Thiess - 1999

In the context of EMU fiscal equalization schemes have been proposed as a means to stabilize regions against asymmetric shocks. A theoretical analysis shows that besides reducing the cross-sectional income variance the redistributive element of fiscal equalization causes incentive effects for...

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Regional stabilization by fiscal equalization? : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence from Germany

Büttner, Thiess - 1999

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A Volatility-Based Theory of Fiscal Union Desirability

Luque, Jaime - 2012

Heterogeneous countries may rationally choose to form a currency union first, and a fiscal union later. Taking into account the sovereignty loss involved in the formation of a fiscal union, we find reasonable conditions on the determinants of volatility for the currency and then fiscal...

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Regional stabilization by fiscal equalization? : Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence from Germany

Büttner, Thiess - 1999

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