Recent Development of Municipal Finance in Selected European Countries [PDF]
The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. In some developed countries the systems of intergovernmental finance have evolved gradually and each country has unique features.
Anita Kaltschütz +2 more
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Subnational home market bias in Vietnam: Evidence from enterprise‐level data [PDF]
, 2019 This paper contributes to the home (market) bias literature where administrative or political borders limit trade across borders. Home bias is well documented at the national and subnational level.
Buis M. +16 more
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The Forum of Federations Handbook of Fiscal Federalism [PDF]
This open access handbook compares fiscal federalism arrangements in eleven federal/ decentralized countries. Each chapter examines an individual country, laying out its constitutional design as relates to fiscal powers and the division of those powers ...
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Institutional Arrangements for Coordination Among Governments in Germany [PDF]
, 2001 The theory of fiscal federalism makes a strong case for decentralizing government functions in order to enhance the efficiency of allocating public goods where preferences differ among regions.
Spahn, Paul Bernd
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Beyond federalism: estimating and explaining the territorial structure of government [PDF]
, 2012 This paper suggests that the basic distinction between federal and unitary government has limited as well as served our understanding of government. The notion that variation in the structure of government is a difference of kind rather than degree has ...
Hooghe, Liesbet, Marks, Gary
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Sedimentology, echinoid palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of Oligo-Miocene Eastern Caribbean limestones [PDF]
, 1987 The Upper Oligocene Antigua Formation comprises a rapidly deposited sequence of limestones developed in an oceanic-arc setting immediately before cessation of subaerial volcanism.
Poddubiuk, Robert Henry
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Patient-tailored connectomics visualization for the assessment of white matter atrophy in traumatic brain injury [PDF]
, 2012 pre-printAvailable approaches to the investigation of traumatic brain injury (TBI) are frequently hampered, to some extent, by the unsatisfactory abilities of existing methodologies to efficiently define and represent affected structural connectivity and
Gerig, Guido, Irimia, Andrei
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Quantifying the Geometric Shell Shape between Populations of True Limpets Lottia Mesoleuca (Mollusca: Lottidae) in Colombia. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2020 Echeverry AM +2 more
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The vocal-motor system of the human brain [PDF]
, 2015 The larynx is the mammalian organ of vocalization. Humans have a degree of control over this organ considerably beyond the abilities of other primates, most notably in our control over the larynx during speech.
Belyk, Michel
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Identification of Reliable Sulcal Patterns of the Human Rolandic Region. [PDF]
Front Hum Neurosci, 2016 Mellerio C +7 more
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