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Fiscal Redistribution and Social Welfare
Coady, David P. - 2019
discussion of fiscal redistribution within the standard social welfareframework, which lends itself to a transparent and … practical evaluation of the extent anddeterminants of fiscal redistribution. Differences in fiscal redistribution are decomposed … factorsexplaining differences in their fiscal redistribution and to discuss patterns in fiscalredistribution highlighted in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889140
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Is Local Consumer Protection Law a Better Redistributive Mechanism Than the Tax System?
Galle, Brian D. - 2011
redistribution through local tort or contract law is superior to either national or local redistributive taxation. The heart of the … capture social preferences for redistribution. At the same time, attempts to enact redistributive taxes at the local level … incorporation of local preferences for redistribution, while reducing deadweight losses. The deadweight losses of legal rules are …
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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income
Giertz, Seth H. - 2012
This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under …-level redistribution are substantial, but state action may still be preferred to a federal policy that is at odds with preferences of a … state pursuing additional redistribution, but not a cost at the national level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099765
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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income
Giertz, Seth H. - 2013
This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under …-level redistribution are substantial, but state action may still be preferred to a federal policy that is at odds with preferences of a … state pursuing additional redistribution, but not a cost at the national level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085724
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Migration elasticities, fiscal federalism and the ability of states to redistribute income
Giertz, Seth H.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2012
This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under …-level redistribution are substantial, but state action may still be preferred to a federal policy that is at odds with preferences of a … state pursuing additional redistribution, but not a cost at the national level. -- fiscal federalism ; income redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581381
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Beggar-thy-neighbour tax cuts : mobility after a local income and wealth tax reform in Switzerland
Martínez, Isabel - 2021
I analyze mobility responses to the unique introduction of regressive local income schedule in the Swiss Canton of Obwalden in 2006, which was aimed at attracting the top 1%. Differencein-Differences estimations comparing Obwalden to all other cantons confirm that the reform successfully...
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Property tax competition : a quantitative assessment
Borck, Rainald; Oshiro, Jun; Satō, Yasuhiro - 2022
We develop a model of property taxation and characterize equilibria under three alternative taxation regimes often used in the public finance literature: decentralized taxation, centralized taxation, and "rent seeking" regimes. We show that decentralized taxation results in inefficiently high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411718
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Federal tax-transfer policy and intergovernmental pre-commitment
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2007
Federal and state governments often differ in the capacity to pre-commit to expenditure and tax policy. Whether the implied sequence of public decisions has any efficiency implications is the subject of this paper. We resort to a setting which contrary to most of the literature does not exhibit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264174
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Should Government Be Allowed to Recover the Costs of Public Services from Tortfeasors? : Tort Subsidies, the Limits of Cost Spreading, and the Free Public Services Doctrine
Lytton, Timothy D. - 2013
The free public services doctrine (also known as the municipal cost recovery rule) states that a government entity may not recover from a tortfeasor the costs of public services occasioned by the tortfeasor's wrongdoing. This article traces the history of the doctrine and argues for its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115182
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Petchey's (2015) Extension of Oates & Schwab's (1988) Efficiency Result Revisited
Eichner, Thomas - 2017
Oates and Schwab (1988) consider an economy with mobile capital and jurisdictions that suffer from local pollution. They show that welfare-maximizing jurisdictions implement the first-best, if they take prices as given and have at their disposal a capital tax and an environmental standard....
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