Der Föderalismus in Deutschland ist in den letzten Jahren zunehmend in den Brennpunkt politischer Auseinandersetzungen geraten. Bemängelt wird in der Diskussion vor allem eine zunehmende Verflechtung von Ausgabe- und Einnahmekompetenzen von Bund und Ländern sowie ein Finanzsystem, das den...

We treat fiscal equalisation as an insurance device against regional tax revenue variance. This insurance comes at the price of moral hazard: regional government will spend too little effort on the development of the local tax base. In a simple bargaining model with two identical regions we show...

Although decision processes at the EU level are highly complex and often require unanimity, explicit side payments among member states are unknown. However, logrolling and redistributive policies are substitutes. This paper considers the EU regional policy as a substitute for explicit side...

The paper deals with the question of whether fiscal transfers re-ceived by cities can be justified by a higher cost of producing publicly provided goods. In the model, increasing the population density implies both a higher output per capita due to agglomeration economies and a higher cost of...

Although decision processes at the EU level are highly complex and often require unanimity, explicit side payments among member states are unknown. However, logrolling and redistributive policies are substitutes. This paper considers the EU regional policy as a substitute for explicit side...

Gegenstand der Studie ist die Ausgestaltung des deutschen Fiskalföderalismus. Es soll gezeigt werden, in welchem Umfang das Konzept des föderalen Wettbewerbs für die bundesdeutsche Finanzverfassung nutzbar gemacht werden kann. Diese Fragestellung umfasst das Verhältnis zwischen Bund und...

We treat fiscal equalisation as an insurance device against regional tax revenue variance. This insurance comes at the price of a moral hazard: regional government will spend too little effort on the development of the local tax base. In a simple bargaining model with two identical regions we...

Although decision processes at the EU level are highly complex and often require unanimity, explicit side payments among member states are unknown. However, logrolling and redistributive policies are substitutes. This paper considers the EU regional policy as a substitute for explicit side...

The paper deals with the question of whether fiscal transfers received by cities can be justified by a higher cost of producing publicly provided goods. In the model, increasing the population density implies both a higher output per capita due to agglomeration economies and a higher cost of the...