Search Results - subject_exact:"Federal transfers"

Municipal investment : potential and limitations of the special fund for infrastructure and climate neutrality

Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine; Gornig, Martin; Hackmann, Angelina - 2026

Municipalities play a key role in providing public services, but despite rising gross investment, there is a significant erosion of assets: real investment growth remains insufficient and net investment continues to be negative. The Special Fund for Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality (SVIK)...

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The smarter state? : artificial intelligence and modern state and local public finance

Agrawal, David R.; Fox, William F. - 2026

This paper examines how artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes subnational public finance, largely through familiar channels observed from prior technological change. Although some effects are novel, many issues surrounding the taxation of AI-related income and consumption parallel earlier...

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Platform governance as fiscal architecture : reading the ES-FC-budget ensemble

Naregal, Veena - 2026

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Politics and public banks : BNDES loans to local governments in Brazil

Pinto, Guilherme Paiva; Bugarin, Mauricio Soares; … - 2026

This study advances a quantitative political economy analysis of development banking within federative systems, focusing on Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES). Moving beyond traditional fiscal transfer models, we investigate the mechanisms through which federal...

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Fiscal federalism for climate action in India : expectations from the 16th Finance Commission

Arora, Gopalika; Ghosh, Nilanjan - 2026

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Do mission-oriented grant schemes shape the direction of science?

Mancuso, Raffaele; Broström, Anders - 2026

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Fiscal flows and asset prices

O'Connell, Michael; Fletcher, Jonathan - 2026

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Perceptions of legitimacy in asymmetric decentralisation : evidence from Spain

Gray, Caroline - 2026

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Rethinking fiscal decentralization in relation to regional informality : evidence from a European transition country

Stojkov, Aleksandar; Stojkova, Aleksandra Maksimovska; … - 2026

This study investigates how a territorially uneven distribution of informal economic activity affects subnational fiscal capacity and potentially distorts fiscal equalization systems. Using a Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes (MIMIC) model, we estimate the size of the informal economy across...

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Heterogeneous fiscal decentralisation in Italian regions

Gianelle, Carlo; Sacchi, Agnese; Salotti, Simone - 2026

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Intergovernmental transfers and dynamic adjustment of subnational budgets

Porto, Alberto; Puig, Jorge; Vidal, Bautista - 2026

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Politics of local fiscal discipline with vertical fiscal imbalance

Obeng, Samuel Kwabena; Aazam, Layal - 2025

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Time-varying us government spending anticipation in real time

Goemans, Pascal; Kruse-Becher, Robinson - 2025

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Do fiscal transfers stick under fiscal stress? : evidence of the flypaper effect from Manipur, North-Eastern Region of India

Jacob, Gaidimlung K. - 2026

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Local government and fiscal transfers : enhancing or weakening democracy?

2026

This open access book analyses whether and to what extent fiscal transfers from central to local governments affect democracy at sub-national level. Fiscal transfers are often perceived to undermine democracy, as politicians utilise them to build patronage networks, weaken opposition candidates,...

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Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? : Evidence from Germany

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2025

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Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? : evidence from Germany

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2022 - This version: 22nd August 2022

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Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? - evidence from Germany

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2020

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Do Party Ties Increase Transfer Receipts in Cooperative Federalism? - Evidence from Germany

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2021

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Fiscal capacity of German federal states : East-West gap narrows, but rich-poor divide grows

Deuverden, Kristina van - 2025

Even now, 35 years after German unification, the economic power and fiscal capacity of the eastern German federal states remain below average. In Germany's system of fiscal federalism, this leads to substantial financial transfers, a fact that repeatedly triggers political debate. Thereby, the...

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Do special transfers to incentivize local tax revenue effort work?

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Cansino, Kenyi; Castro, Luis; … - 2026

Many decentralized countries struggle with low levels of subnational tax effort. As a remedy for this situation, specific-purpose incentive schemes designed for own revenue mobilization at the subnational level can be simple, efficient, and cost-effective tools. We examine the effects of an...

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Do special transfers to incentivize local tax revenue effort work?

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Cansino, Kenyi; Castro, Luis; … - 2026

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Are fiscal transfers inflationary?

Arias, Jonas E.; Rubio-Ramírez, Juan Francisco; Shin, … - 2026

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Navigating post-conflict governance in Yemen : decentralization, federalism, and the path to stability

Elayah, Moosa; Almaweri, Ahmed; Alzandani, Bakeel - 2025

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The making of a nation : who voted for Australian federation?

Alexander, Rohan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2025

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Unconditional transfers under fiscal federalism : distributional trade-offs in Switzerland

Oschwald, Patrick; Anderl, Robin; Kirn, Tanja - 2026

This article examines how Switzerland's decentralized welfare structure shapes the outcomes of Basic Income reforms. Using SWISSMOD, a static microsimulation model based on EUROMOD, we simulate unconditional transfer schemes of varying generosity at federal and cantonal levels, combined with...

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Unconditional transfers under fiscal federalism : distributional trade-offs in Switzerland

Oschwald, Patrick; Anderl, Robin; Kirn, Tanja - 2026

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Governance by one-lot shares

Cao, Feng; Xuan, Yuhai; Yuan, Rongli; Zou, Hong - 2025

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Governance by One-Lot Shares

Cao, Feng; Xuan, Yuhai; Yuan, Rongli; Zou, Hong - 2021

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The long-run impact of school funding on economic outcomes

Duque, Daniel - 2026

Do public investments in compulsory schooling translate into the same long-run economic gains for all? Using a large intergovernmental transfer reform in Norway that mechanically shifted municipal school revenues based on pre-reform student age structure, I estimate the long-run impacts of...

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Determinants of value-added tax revenue transfers in municipalities of emerging economies

Abidar, Brahim; Ed-Dafali, Slimane; Kobiyh, Miloudi - 2025

This paper aims to test the hypothesis of the existence of significant tax competition between communes, which mainly concerns the share of value-added tax (VAT) proceeds, by exploring the system for allocating intergovernmental transfers in Morocco and analyzing the determinants of VAT...

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Asymmetric decentralisation in South Africa : implications for municipal governance

Monkam, Nara; Taruvinga, Panashe G. - 2026

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Asymmetric decentralization and inequality

Beramendi, Pablo; Rogers, Melissa Ziegler - 2026

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One hundred years of U.S. state taxation

Robinson, Sarah; Tazhitdinova, Alisa - 2025

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When does fiscal decentralization deliver equity?

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Heredia-Ortiz, Eunice; … - 2026

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Does fiscal autonomy always fuel financial health in local governments? : a cross-country analysis

Iacuzzi, Silvia; Padovani, Emanuele; Canestrini, Paola - 2025

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The effects of capital grants to subnational governments under fiscal stress : evidence from the Spanish regions

Lago Peñas, Santiago; Vaquero García, Alberto; … - 2025

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Revenue decentralization and vertical fiscal imbalance : a survey

Lago, Manuel E.; Lago Peñas, Santiago; … - 2026

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Intergovernmental grants to school districts and educational outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic

Clemens, Jeffrey; Hoxie, Philip G.; Veuger, Stan - 2026

During the COVID-19 pandemic the US federal government appropriated $189.5 billion in emergency aid to school districts. These funds were supplied to help districts replace lost revenues and to mitigate the harmful effects of the pandemic on learning and other measures of district performance....

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Intergovernmental Grants to School Districts and Educational Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Clemens, Jeffrey; Hoxie, Philip G.; Veuger, Stan - 2026

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The influence of public audit bodies on the effectiveness of local budget governance

Mukhamedyarova, Liya; Tussibayeva, Gulmira; Shakharova, … - 2025

Ensuring effective governance of local budgets is critical for public service delivery and sustainable development. Public audit institutions-including internal auditors and independent supreme audit bodies-are hypothesized to enhance local budget effectiveness by promoting transparency,...

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Strengthening Fiscal Federalism in Pakistan

Haque, Tobias; Farooq, Aroub; Malaeb, Bilal; Morgado, Joao - 2026

This report argues that broad reforms to current fiscal federalism arrangements are critical to addressing development challenges, both through and beyond any new NFC Award. Current fiscal federalism arrangements provide important benefits to Pakistan. The design of fiscal federalism...

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Federal tax policy and the capitalization of local public goods

Ambrose, Brent William; Valentin, Maxence - 2025

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Russia's regional economies in wartime : fiscal divergence, defence windfalls and transfer pressures

Parviainen, Sinikka - 2026

Russia's regions bear a rapidly growing share of the fiscal costs of war. Since showing surpluses as recently as 2021, the collective regional deficit quadrupled in a single year. Using five years of budget execution reports from the Russian Federal Treasury across all 85 Russian regions...

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Can fiscal transfers achieve both equity and efficiency : evidence from Chinese counties

Liu, Feng; Hu, Yangmu - 2025

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Equalization is broken : how the continuous growth requirement inhibits reform

Eisen, Ben; Emes, Joel - 2026

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Structural funds and β-convergence of German counties

Steinbrunner, Philipp; Bronnmann, Julia - 2025

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India's goods and services tax : context, design and policy spillovers

Jha, Raghbendra; Bali, Azad Singh - 2023

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On the effects of intergovernmental grants : a survey

Lago, Manuel E.; Lago Peñas, Santiago; … - 2024

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On the effects of intergovernmental grants : a survey

Lago, Manuel E.; Lago Peñas, Santiago; … - 2023

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On the effects of intergovernmental grants: a survey

Lago, Manuel E.; Lago Peñas, Santiago; … - 2022

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On the effects of intergovernmental grants : a survey

Lago, Manuel E.; Lago Peñas, Santiago; … - 2022

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The role of the carrot and stick in tax compliance in a decentralised context

Durán, José María; Esteller-Moré, Alejandro - 2025 - Version February 2025

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Equalization through the People's Republic of China's intergovernmental fiscal system : the effectiveness of central and provincial transfers

Tan, Xiao; Tan, Ying - 2024

The People's Republic of China's (PRC) ﬁscal system is characterized by very high expenditure decentralization and heavy reliance on transfers to ﬁnance public services. The government's embrace of inclusiveness and equalization as national goals has raised questions about whether transfers...

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Reassignment and the power to tax in a federal state : Canada, 1867-2024

Winer, Stanley L. - 2025 - Revised, February 4, 2025

Although reassignment of policy instruments among governments in many federations is a recurring event, there is no widely accepted, positive model of the phenomenon. This stands in contrast to the well established body of work on the normative theory of the efficient federal assignment. In this...

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Reassignment and the power to tax in a federal state : Canada, 1867-2024

Winer, Stanley L. - 2024

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Will voters polarize over pandemic restrictions? : theory and evidence from COVID-19

Stankov, Petar - 2024

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Atlantic Canada's precarious public finances : 2025 update

Eisen, Ben; Palacios, Milagros - 2025

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Fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency : do natural disasters matter?

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2024

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The behavioral additionality of government research grants

Widmann, Rainer - 2024

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Spatial policies and heterogeneous employment responses

Bald, Fabian; Henkel, Marcel - 2025

This paper proposes that spatial policies improve economic outcomes by reducing barriers to supplying labour, with heterogeneous effects across demographic groups. Using quasi-experimental variation in Germany's fiscal transfer system, we estimate higher employment elasticities for female...

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