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Why adopt a federal constitution? : and why decentralize? : determinants based on a new dataset
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2017
Measurement of both federalism and decentralization has been contentious. We introduce three new indicators reflecting … important aspects of both federalism and decentralization. The three new indicators are the result of principal component … evidence that it is important to distinguish between federalism and decentralization, if one is interested in ascertaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668291
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Why Adopt a Federal Constitution? And why Decentralize? – Determinants Based on a New Dataset
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2017
Measurement of both federalism and decentralization has been contentious. We introduce three new indicators reflecting … important aspects of both federalism and decentralization. The three new indicators are the result of principal component … evidence that it is important to distinguish between federalism and decentralization, if one is interested in ascertaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011642910
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Federalism and decentralization : a critical survey of frequently used indicators
Blume, Lorenz; Voigt, Stefan - 2008
decentralization. We argue that federalism is a constitutional institution whereas decentralization is (the outcome of) a policy choice … result, implying that a more fine-grained differentiation beyond the distinction between federalism and decentralization … might be in order. The correlations of the most important proxies for various aspects of federalism and decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003865927
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Why Adopt a Federal Constitution? And Why Decentralize? – Determinants Based on a New Dataset
Gutmann, Jerg - 2017
Measurement of both federalism and decentralization has been contentious. We introduce three new indicators reflecting … important aspects of both federalism and decentralization. The three new indicators are the result of principal component … evidence that it is important to distinguish between federalism and decentralization, if one is interested in ascertaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957173
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Federalism and Decentralization – A Critical Survey of Frequently Used Indicators
Blume, Lorenz; Voigt, Stefan - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008
decentralization. We argue that federalism is a constitutional institution whereas decentralization is (the outcome of) a policy choice … result, implying that a more fine-grained differentiation beyond the distinction between federalism and decentralization … might be in order. The correlations of the most important proxies for various aspects of federalism and decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005490042
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Federalism and Decentralization - A Critical Survey of Frequently Used Indicators
Blume, Lorenz; Voigt, Stefan - 2009
decentralization. We argue that federalism is a constitutional institution whereas decentralization is (the outcome of) a policy choice … result, implying that a more fine-grained differentiation beyond the distinction between federalism and decentralization … might be in order. The correlations of the most important proxies for various aspects of federalism and decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214927
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The Federal Approach to Fiscal Decentralisation : Conceptual Contours for Policy Makers
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - 2006
present time has to be federally flexible and dynamically decentralised and institutions of fiscal federalism are crucial for … federalism if it is to be successful, irrespective of the fact of whether it is being carried out in a federal or non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054503
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Federalism and economic development in India: An assessment
Singh, Nirvikar; Srinivasan, T.N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic development outcomes, and of the country’s federal institutions, the analysis focuses on the major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787082
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Multiplier Effects of Federal Disaster-Relief Spending : Evidence from U.S. States and Households
Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2017
Can government spending have a large effect on private consumption and income? This paper uses a novel dataset on federal government disaster-relief spending, combined with both household and state-level consumption, income and employment data, to answer this question. My estimates show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961537
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Tax Competition and Federal Equalization Schemes with Decentralized Leadership
Delfino Silva, Emilson - 2013
In a federation featuring decentralized leadership, regional governments compete by setting capital taxes in anticipation of the central government's fiscal-equalization and income-redistribution policies. As a benchmark, it is first demonstrated that the constrained socially optimal allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072725