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Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting dynamics and vice versa (electoral externalities). We quantify the extent of simultaneous electoral externalities between two layers of government. We apply vector autoregressions...
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decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; vertical interactions ; partial decentralization ; elections …
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. The classic theory on the political economy of migration supposes that immigration fosters opposing sentiments among the …
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This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning …
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This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning …
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This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically …
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scholars and is there any evidence that would suggest all this attention is warranted? Proponents see federalism as a means to …, while policy decentralization is the key to federalism's strong rights and economic performance and can be achieved within a … provides federalism's valued outcomes. Third, federalism needs democracy; there is no evidence that adding policy …
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This paper provides new evidence on the sustainability of public finances in German states (Laender) by exploiting a newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability by applying "gsecond generation" panel cointegration...
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In this paper we analyze the sustainability of public finances in the states (Laender) of the Federal Republic of Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender and 1991 to 2011 for East German Laender, respectively. In...
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