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Political competition, electoral participation and local fiscal performance

open access: yesDevelopment Studies Research, 2021
Existing literature argues that political competition and electoral participation influence government efficiency. However, empirical evidence on the matter for developing countries is scant and mixed.
Daniela Ariza Marín   +2 more
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Fiscal stress as a catalyst for public service provision in China: evidence from the VAT reform [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
Local government responses to fiscal stress are crucial for ensuring public service provision, especially in times of fiscal tightening. Previous studies have shown inconsistent findings, often focusing on developed countries in Europe and the United ...
Xiaoshan Cai, Bin Zhang, Jin Yang
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Effects of Tax Competition on the Economy of EU Member States [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics, 2022
This paper aims to analyze the concept of fiscal competition and the goals pursued by the authorities to stimulate the increase of budgetary efficiency.
Camelia Mădălina BELDIMAN
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Balancing fiscal expenditure competition and long-term innovation investment: Exploring trade-offs and policy implications for local governments.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
The mobility of economic factors across jurisdictions has led to increased fiscal competition among decentralized subnational governments. This study examines the relationship between fiscal competition and long-term investment in innovation at the local
Song Wenjuan, Kai Zhao
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Impact of China’s Local Government Competition and Environmental Regulation on Total Factor Productivity

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2023
In the transition of China’s economy toward high-quality development, it will be increasingly important to coordinate the relationship between local government competition, environmental regulation, and the transformation of the economic growth mode.
Lingui Qin   +5 more
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Fiscal harmonization and fiscal competition in European Union [PDF]

open access: yesEkonomski Pogledi, 2015
The fiscal system and fiscal policy represent important features of the national sovereignty of a country and an integral part of overall economicy policy.
Kalaš Branimir, Milošević Snežana
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Feeding the Leviathan: political competition and soft budget constraints. Evidence from Argentine subnational districts

open access: yesInvestigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2022
This paper presents evidence of the influence of political competition on the behavior of fiscal policy in Argentine provinces from 1987 to 2015. Contrary to the predominant theory and empirical evidence from subnational districts my estimations of a ...
Osvaldo Meloni
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The Role of Fiscal Policy in Ensuring the Competitiveness of the National Economy [PDF]

open access: yesProblemi Ekonomiki, 2023
The article considers the role of fiscal policy in ensuring the competitiveness of the national economy. In particular, the essence of fiscal policy is defined and the basic scientific approaches to scientists’ understanding of the content of economic ...
Yakushko Inna V.
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Policy recommendations on tacing and reducing program mismatch and perverse incentives present in earmarking sin tax to tobacco growing areas

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Recognizing that the Philippine 1991 tobacco tax sharing law favoured the development of tobacco, the Sin Tax Law, a separate law on restructuring cigarette tax, expanded the use of such to also cover shifting farmers to viable alternative ...
Madeiline Joy Aloria   +2 more
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The impact of fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental competition on the local government debt risk: Evidence from China

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Based on the data of explicit debt and implicit debt of local governments in China from 2012 to 2020, this paper theoretically analyzes and empirically tests the spatial correlation effect of fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental competition on ...
Xuling Huo   +3 more
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