Essays in Fiscal Federalism and Political Economy
Author : Brian G. Knight
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2000
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Author : Brian G. Knight
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2000
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Author : Yannick Bury
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2023
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Author : Stanley L. Winer
Publisher : Cheltenham [England] : E. Elgar Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Economies
ISBN : 9781840647815
In this collection of essays, Stanley Winer uses data from Canada, the US and Australia to explore a variety of issues including: the political economy of intergovernmental grants, the evolution of tax structure, and the re-assignment of fiscal powers among jurisdictions.
Author : Ross David Hickey
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Economic policy
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This dissertation consists of three essays on fiscal federalism. The first essay takes a political economy approach to fiscal centralization, through federation formation. I analyze a simple two region model of federalism with interregional policy spillovers. Departing from a state of independence with decentralized provision of public policy we analyze the proposed formation of a federation to internalize the spillovers. A federation forms when the centralized outcomes satisfy participation constraints. With this restriction to rational federalism we then consider equilibrium allocations under alternative institutional environments involving; simple majority voting, restriction of uniform taxation, and regional bargaining through a bicameral legislature. The analysis illustrates the importance of these institutions on the allocation of policy authority in federations that form. The model produces clear results with regards to the feasible set of equilibrium centralization and the allocations of publicly provided goods therein. In the second essay local governments compete over a mobile business property tax base by adjusting their tax rates. This paper estimates the effect of neighboring tax rates on a local government's tax rate. This tax setting best response function is estimated with a difference-in-differences model. Endogeneity of neighboring tax rates is avoided by using election outcomes as an instrumental variable. The model is estimated using data from the municipalities of British Columbia, Canada. The findings indicate that tax competition is a determining factor of tax setting behavior. The results are discussed with reference to the local government institutions and the rising property values. The third essay studies intergovernmental transfers. Many intergovernmental transfers are said to serve political purposes. I augment a standard model of political career concerns allowing for multilevel governance, to investigate this assertion. When elections are staggered, an equilibrium exists with positive transfers. These transfers are motivated by two factors; sabotaging challengers and rent smoothing. These transfers are non-partisan and an artifact of the electoral dynamics as prescribed by an electoral calendar and politicians' career concerns. These results are discussed with reference to the growing literature on the partisan basis of intergovernmental transfers.
Author : Michael T. Dorsch
Publisher : ProQuest
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Economics, General
ISBN : 9780549908562
This collection of essays considers the social choice of publicly-financed goods. Each essay analyzes how individuals trade off the benefits of public consumption against the costs of paying income taxes. Heterogeneity of tax burdens when income taxation is proportional drives policy preferences, which determine public policy through majority rule. The essays consider provision of publicly-provided goods in three different political economic settings.
Author : International Institute of Management
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. ; Toronto : Lexington Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Wallace E. Oates
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9781843766308
Wally Oates is one of the most important scholars in both environmental economics and public finance and this new volume of his essays collects together his best recent research in both these areas, covering theory, research and policy. The first half of the book includes papers on the political economy of environmental policy, the analysis of environmental regulation and environmental federalism. The second half deals with fiscal and regulatory competition, state and local government finance and fiscal federalism. This new collection will be essential reading for scholars and students in both environmental economics and public finance.
Author : Richard Abel Musgrave
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Wallace E. Oates
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
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Economic theorists and finance practitioners alike turn to the work of Wallace E.Oates as a source for understanding the economics of fiscal federalism. In this book, Professor Oates provides an overview and synthesis of fiscal federalism together with a careful selection of his most important articles and papers, many of which have previously not been readily available.
Author : Jessica Wallack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2006-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139448703
This collection focuses on the ways in which federalism has affected and been affected by economic reform, especially global integration. The editors and contributors focus in particular on the political economy of institutional and economic change - how the division of authority between national and subnational governments shapes debates over policy changes, as well as how the changing economic environment creates incentives to modify the basic agreements between levels of governments. Each chapter contains a historical overview, and an in-depth account of division of authority, lines of accountability, and legislative, bureaucratic, and other arenas in which the levels of government interact for a particular country. The analyses are based on reform (or non-reform) episodes for each country - most from recent history, but some spanning the century. As a collection, the country studies span a range of developing and industrial countries with varying political systems.