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The Impact of Intergovernmental Grants on Cost Efficiency: Theory and Evidence from German Municipalities [PDF]

In this paper we use a simple bureaucracy model of fiscal illusion to analyze the impact of intergovernmental grants on the cost efficiency of local jurisdictions.
Kalb, Alexander
core  

Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
wiley   +1 more source

Cost estimation of the National Essential Public Health Service Package in township health centers in Guangxi, China: based on the equivalent method. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Wang S, Zhao Y, Liang X, Kang J, Chen Y, Zhao H, Lin L, Zhang Y, Huang Z, Feng Q.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Irish regional GDP since independence

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper constructs the first long‐run estimates of Irish regional gross domestic product (GDP) over the twentieth century and traces the relative economic performance of Ireland's regions since independence. Using an array of data sources available at a county level, output in agriculture, industry, and services in benchmark census years is
Alan de Bromhead, Seán Kenny
wiley   +1 more source

Equalization of basic public services enabled by digitization: A study of mechanism and heterogeneity. [PDF]

PLoS One
Huang H, Zhang Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Building a Potemkin village in occupied China: Japan's wartime system of linked trade, 1939–43

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The paper discusses the novel but little‐known exchange rate system of Japanese‐occupied North China during the Second Sino‐Japanese War, in which exporters were given the right to import in the form of a piece of yellow paper, which could be sold in the secondary market.
Shinji Takagi
wiley   +1 more source

Has urban public service equalization reduced regional differences in economic resilience? [PDF]

PLoS One
Wang S, Zhang Q, Sun M, Teng Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Budget Rules, Fiscal Consolidation and Government Spending:Implications for Federal Transfers [PDF]

This paper examined the nature of fiscal consolidation during the era of rule based fiscal control in states and its implications for federal transfers.
Pinaki, Chakraborty
core   +1 more source

Media Sentiment and Price Run‐Ups

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We empirically test competing hypotheses about the role of financial media sentiment in price run‐ups. Our global analysis of unusual price increases in stock market segments provides no evidence for long‐term market overreactions fuelled by media reporting.
Heiko Jacobs, Alexander Lauber
wiley   +1 more source

Research on the impact and mechanism of local governments' land conveyance behavior on urban-rural integrated development-Empirical evidence from 281 prefecture-level cities in China. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zeng L, Peng B, Xie J.
europepmc   +1 more source