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Fiscal Centralization in Times of Crisis : Evidence from 11 Federal States

Trein, Philipp - 2016

This paper examines centralization of fiscal policies during the financial and economic crisis, from 2007-2012. We use set logic and QCA methodology to trace out configurations of conditions to explain events of centralization of fiscal policymaking in five European and six non-European...

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Political Will and Fiscal Federalism in Municipal Bankruptcy

Gillette, Clayton P. - 2011

activities in a manner more consistent with the tenets of fiscal federalism …

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Federal Tax Arrears : Liquidity Problems,Federal Subsidies, or Regional Protection?

Ponomareva, Maria - 2008

Three hypotheses about the nature of federal tax arrears in Russia in the second half of the '90s are tested empirically. Tax arrears can be a result of: 1) liquidity problems in firms, 2) federal implicit subsidies, or 3) regional political resistance to federal tax collectors. Liquidity...

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Government decentralization and international government performance

Goel, Rajeev K.; Mazhar, Ummad; Nelson, Michael A.; … - 2016

decentralization, federalism, and aggregate decentralization. Our results show that fiscal and administrative decentralization are …

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Our Federalism Is Not Europe’s : It's Becoming Argentina’s

Greve, Michael - 2012

American “we-do-federalism-right” triumphalism. In the United States, as in Europe, subordinate governments are beset by … governments. That commitment was once the glory of American federalism. Over the past decade, however, the no-bailout commitment … has effectively collapsed. Its demise entails fundamental changes in American federalism, none of them encouraging. After …

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Who Honor the Rules of Federalism? Party System Nationalization and Fiscal Performance

Lago-Peñas, Santiago - 2015

This paper explores the impact of decentralization on countries' fiscal outcomes paying attention to one aspect usually neglected in the literature: the relevance of self-interested local politics. Relevance that can be proxied by the nationalization of political party systems, namely the extent...

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Debt Rule Federalism : The Case of Germany

Ciaglia, Sarah - 2012

federation. Due to bailout-guarantees enshrined in German federalism, German states do not have incentives to impress bond …

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Nastygram Federalism : A Look at Federal Environmental Self-Audit Policy

Cassuto, David N. - 2014

This Article examines the evolution of EPA's audit policy, explores the reasons for states' dissatisfaction with it, and then discusses whether the federal policy should have been issued as a rule under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Part I examines the evolution of the federal audit...

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Federal Refrom II in Germany

Heinz, Dominic - 2010

Recently Germany experienced yet another federal reform shortly after a previous modification to the German federal system. This paper explains agenda setting, negotiations and ratification of this recent federal reform. With regards to the case of the most recent federal reform in Germany the...

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Intergovernmental Relations and Subnational Finances in Russia in 2008

Siluanov, Anton - 2012

This paper deals with interbudgetary relations and subnational finances in the Russian Federation. The authors focus on major trends in relations between budgets of different levels, measures taken by the federal government to mitigate the crisis impact on the regions

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