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The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks

Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021

We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...

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The political resource curse

Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010

endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence refers to municipalities in Brazil, where federal transfers to municipal … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. -- Government spending ; corruption …

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Legislative term limits and state aid to local governments

Yakovlev, Pavel; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Lewis, William P. - 2012

-barrel spending, which takes the form of higher transfers from state to local governments. This finding might also imply that …-seeking ; transportation ; welfare ; education ; health ; intergovernmental aid and transfers …

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Fiscal competition and the composition of public spending : theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald (contributor); Caliendo, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different...

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Public expenditure, demography and growth : theory and evidence from India

Pranab Kumar Das; Kar, Saibal - 2016

Many countries in the developed world are ageing in terms of their distribution of population. Conversely, a number of countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the mean age close to 27 years as of present times....

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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment : do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012

We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...

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Does increasing public spending in health improve health? : lessons from a constitutional reform in Brazil

Szklo, Michel; Clarke, Damian; Rocha, Rudi - 2024

We examine the link between public spending in health and health outcomes by leveraging differential exposure to a health spending reform prompted by Brazil's 29th Constitutional Amendment, which mandated municipalities to spend at least 15% of their budget on health. We map dynamic effects on...

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Public employment and redistributive politics : evidence from Russia's regions

Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, … - 2000

defined territorial units, and in regions which received larger federal transfers and loans. Regional governors appear to use … extract transfers. …

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Government and cities : contests and the decentralization of decision making

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

Governments do not have perfect information regarding the priorities and the needs of different groups in the economy. This lack of knowledge opens the door for different groups to lobby the government in order to receive the government's support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and...

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Do better paid politicians perform better? : disentangling incentives from selection

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2009

The wage paid to politicians affects both the choice of citizens to run for an elective office and the performance of those who are appointed. First, if skilled individuals shy away from politics because of higher opportunities in the private sector, an increase in politicians' pay may change...

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